The Old Man Is Getting Senile

Well, someone is finally taking the Chamber to task on their slimeball campaigning. Sort of.

Unfortunately, however, the criticism is tempered by who it comes from - an octogenarian former Mayor whose grand contributions to our City were a convention center with an awful facade, a hockey team that can't win playoff games and a statue of a white guy who appears to be attacking Highway 87. And it's tempered by how badly he wants his opponents to be guilty of the same.

Yes, the remarkable thing about McEnery's Elections Commissions tirade over at Obnoxious Blowhards is how desperately he tries to paint his opposition with the "dirty campaigning" brush. Or maybe slinging mud is a more apt analogy, trying to see what charges stick.

The Democratic Party, of which McEnery is ostensibly a member, earned Tom's ire by not backing David Pandori in 2006, and then working for Chavez in the run-off campaign. To say that the campaign work they've done is dirty lacks any evidence that I've seen. And to compare it to what the Chamber does is embarrassing.

Compare how the two sides are approaching this campaign cycle.

Here's what the Chamber is doing.

And here's what the Democratic Party is doing.

One of these, it seems to this observer, is a positive contribution to the political world. One is not. You be the judge.

Examples that disprove my assessment above are welcome. Good luck.