The Art of Politics

Get A Shovel

There's so much dirt out there about the election...

Like this piece from Newsweek, the mudslide of behind the scenes hijinx is burying the political classes.

Nothing new, of course, but most of this information is really old - well dated. And the real question is - why wasn't it publicized when it first occurred? If the information on Kerry's pursuit of McCain is accurate, that's huge news. As is the news that Bill Clinton advised Kerry to endorse local initiatives to ban gay marriage. To his credit, Kerry refused to take a cheap political tactical turn, but to his detriment, he campaigned as opposed to gay marriage, which frankly is not an honest disclosure of his own thinking on the topic.

The exchange of access for silence needs to ensure that information the public probably would want isn't kept under the election rug...

Posted by MEC2 at November 5, 2004 08:28 AM