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Originally posted by Colin@Apr 25 2003, 07:19 AM
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I think we should be careful to hold people in both parties to the same standards. If we're truly interested in making such statements on the basis of such lofty and noble standards of equality we should make them equally both against people in "our parties" but also in the other.
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but this is what politics is.
politics is based largely on discrediting the other side(s). the side that succeeds in painting a worse picture of the other side wins.
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Members of each party can go back and forth trying to discredit the other based upon their best guesses of what the person's intent is.
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i would not say "best guesses of what the persons intent is". i would say that politicians try to discredit by sucessfully characterizing or mischaracterizing their intentions.
thats politics.
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Seems to me that people often think the members of their own party are more honest, moral, and ethical than those of the other. Cloudy vision results from such nonsense.
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i think we all do this. we are all biased because we have political beliefs. we cant possibly look at any politician objectively if we already have a political view. having a political view on issues causes us to view those politicians, actions, statements or remarks that are consistent with our own views or beliefs in a more favorable or positive light.