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The recent television advertisement featuring the two troubled, young, female celebrities and Barrack Obama is suspiciously similar to the vicious campaigning that we were exposed to during the last few elections.

I try to be non-partisan so I gave serious thought to the tone of this column.  Sometimes it’s best to tell it like it is.

The advertisement in question managed at once to be insulting, childish, cowardly and cruel.

Cowardly and cruel because it used and abused the two, young women.  And it was a behind the back attack accomplished with innuendo.  Where I come from, we don’t kick women, especially when they are down.  We used to have a name for guys who fight like this—what is happening to us?

Think how these girls and their families must feel about being held up to more national ridicule and scorn; for the purpose of helping to determine the outcome of a presidential election of the United States of America.

We all know these two women had serious problems in their lives.  The nation was subjected to hundreds of hours of playback of their deepest troubles as our sleaze-media repeated the details thousands of times on television and in print. Obviously, these particular celebrities were chosen for the ad for a reason.  The choice was no accident.

The creators of the sleaze-ad would like us to compare Senator Obama to two of the most publicly ridiculed women of the past few years; the assumption being that the majority of us are so stupid that the ad will make us forget that Mr. Obama, after graduation from Harvard, spent most of his professional life helping troubled and downtrodden people.  What must these politicians think of the rest of us?

Isn’t it about time we voice our disgust at this kind of insult to our collective intelligence?  Think about this--the authors of this ad truly believe they will move the majority of voters toward their candidate.

Can this be true?  Did the authors poll for results before they ran the ad?  Does this disgusting methodology really work on most of us?  Do we not understand what people of low integrity will do to our already troubled nation if we put them in positions of power?

As a military dependant, I traveled the world for years and had to fight my way into a dozen schools.  The kind of thinking that produced this ad reminded me of the behavior I had to deal with when confronted by grade school bullies.  In almost every new school, there was at least one kid whose main personality trait was brutal cruelty.  That was their strong suit, so that is what they lived by.  They had to live by it, for they were dumb as logs otherwise.

It is a safe bet that the people who live by this kind of advertising think it is their strong suit.  It is what they spend their money on.  It is what they live by.  They are taking their best shot.  Why don’t we take them at their word?   Their actions tell us who they are, so let’s listen to them.

The United States is in very serious trouble right now—it will take years to correct problems that have taken decades to create.  We must quickly put aside the labels of Democrat, Republican, liberal or conservative and place our votes on the men or women who stand the best chance of fixing our monumental problems.

We are out of time.  We can’t print too many more hundreds-of-billions of dollars and hope the Chinese and Japanese will keep buying them.

It is imperative that we watch closely and choose well.