And I don't mean the candidates...
So I'm doing my daily review of the news and I come across this:
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~64~2488266,00.html
Now I know no one is actually going to go to the link, so here's the gist of it.
Apparently, there are Kerry supporters calling the families of soldiers and telling them their loved ones are dead. When the families say their loved ones are alive, the caller says that if they want them to stay that way, they should vote for Kerry.
This is the most disgusting thing I have ever read in my life. I do not care who you support, or how much, or how much you hate the other guy, you do not, under any circumstances, approach people whose families are serving our country to tell them that their loved ones are dead! In fact, you do not, under any circumstances, approach anyone and tell them that a member of their family is dead!
The Republicans are not to be outdone. However, their approach is unethical in a far less cruel manner. Apparantly, there is a group calling Republicans who requested absentee ballots, and are encouraging them to cast provincial ballots as well. If you're going to blatantly make a mockery of our voting system, why not put a dunce cap on the nation and make it parade around in parachute pants while whistling Dixie?
There are opinions cited in the article about how and why the actions I have mentioned are legal (not the phone calls, but certain other things the some Kerry supporters are doing.) My argument is not that they aren't. I just think they are ethically, morally, humanistically wrong. And this is a morality that has nothing to do with God or faith. This is simply coming from something I learned in kindergarten which they told me was the Golden Rule.
I guess gold isn't worth much anymore.