Campus Voice
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Opponents may talk trash but Obama shows class
Congratulations to Mitt Romney for
proving exactly why he shouldn’t be
president.
Romney criticized a documentary,
planned to be released Thursday by
Barack Obama’s campaign, claiming
the video to be an “infomercial.”
The 17-minute video will highlight
the president’s accomplishments in the
White House, according to the Obama
campaign.
Critics, including Romney, call the
video a campaign stunt.
Considering the fact that campaign
season is upon us and Obama’s cam
paign team releases the video, what
makes this a stunt?
And really, Romney, aren’t your com
ments a tad hypocritical considering the
number of campaign videos released by
your campaign?
Let’s discuss the difference between
the Obama campaign’s video and Rom
ney’s video.
Obama’s video details what the presi
dent accomplished during his first term
in office. Sure, it’s part of the political
game. It’s supposed to say to voters,
“Look what we’ve already done,” and
imply Obama can do more.
Courtesy of The White House
President Obama places phone calls to military service members last Thanks
giving , thanking them for their service.
It’s called campaign strategy, and it
beats Romney’s.
So far Romney’s campaign has
released countless videos arguing his
ability to govern this country. More than
30 videos criticize Obama and his term
as president, and another seven videos
aim only to criticize his GOP opponent
Newt Gingrich.
Funny, he hasn’t aimed his insulting
videos at the other GOP candidate Rick
Santorum.
What do these videos say about Rom
ney’s campaign strategy? Why bother
connecting with voters, listening to their
issues or showing how he can fix those
issues. Instead, let’s just make the other
guy look bad.
Yeah, that’s a solid approach. Instead
of giving voters the information they
need to make informed decisions about
who would be the best leader, just make
them choose the lesser of two evils.
Obama refrained from involving him
self in the name-calling games politi
cians play during the 2008 campaign,
and so far he hasn’t involved himself in
the game this time around.
Romney, and even Gingrich, whose
campaign released similar critical vid
eos, should take note.
These GOP candidates may be excel
lent at finding fault with their oppo
nents, but this only serves to highlight
their own faults.
Obama won the 2008 election without
constantly criticizing his opponent. For
that, he earned respect.
He played fair and won by proving
that he not only has leadership qualities,
but he also had more class than other
candidates.
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