Lord Voldemort, the nature of evil, and politics

[dumbledore11214]

Tonks:
I posted a question about evil in general. I didn't really want to get
into specifics about the election and who did what to whom or to 
disect
the process of the 'making of a President". I am sick of all of it at
this point. What I am referring to is the dirty nature of 'politics as
usual'. And I will admit that Obama's campaign was the best organized
ever. They did not miss a beat. Ever trick in the book and then some.
Every trick in the political book and the community org. book and
Psychology too. I could write a book on what they did and how. In fact
Saul Alinksy wrote at least one of their play books, in "Rules for
Radicals". These tactics is what I have objected too.
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Alla:

No, you did not just post a question about evil in general. You keep 
using Obama's campaign as an example for it without really specifying 
what dirty tricks they committed. Which maybe they did, but how 
do I know that?

The debate does not seem very fair to me. You appear to know 
information I do not. 

Obama campaign brought Mccain's corruption scandal is that the "dirty 
trick" you are referring to? I was not happy that they brought it up, 
but boy I think they stopped really fast and continued to talk about 
the issues while Mccain and Palin kept milking Obama "terrorist 
connections" for what it was worth IMO.

But as I said before, I really do not think that this campaign was 
the dirtiest campaign and it was only the third campaign I observed 
closely and the second where I voted.

Alla