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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Well, this article says it better and more completely than I can. It is 
cogent and compelling. Here are the first couple of graphs and the url:

THE CHOICE
Issue of 2004-11-01
Posted 2004-10-25
This Presidential campaign has been as ugly and as bitter as any in 
American memory. The ugliness has flowed mostly in one direction, reaching 
its apotheosis in the effort, undertaken by a supposedly independent group 
financed by friends of the incumbent, to portray the challenger—who in his 
mid-twenties was an exemplary combatant in both the Vietnam War and the 
movement to end that war—as a coward and a traitor. The bitterness has been 
felt mostly by the challenger’s adherents; yet there has been more than 
enough to go around. This is one campaign in which no one thinks of having 
the band strike up “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041101ta_talk_editors