Sunday September 14, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

There is something disingenuous about political ads.

Many ads push the boundaries between falsities and truth, but that is politics and such are national elections and there is no way to really change that.

The most disturbing issue for me is exploitation. One candidate's ads exploit the other candidate's ads and all the ads are exploited by the media. No one, especially the media, take into account that candidates are politicians and politicians are people and people change their minds.

Politicians grow and learn and actually do take new stands.
While it is not a lie to reflect on the earlier stand of a politician/candidate, neither is it the complete truth if that person has taken a new stand.
And change, as we are reminded, is not a bad thing.

The hope is that as a politician becomes more mature and approaches closer to power, their perspective will change. The hope is that a candidate's point of view will become more responsible. The hope is that as a nominee gets closer and closer to the presidency and is exposed to more nuanced and deeper analysts and advisers their own analysis will come into sharper focus.

Bottom line is that the growth is good, it is part of the maturation process.
Political ads, however, are stuck in infancy.

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