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I have grown increasingly annoyed with the campaign advertisements being approved by both candidates. I guess the American public has come to accept the fact that our leaders may lie or exaggerate the truth. After all, an exaggerated truth is still just a lie. It is not acceptable for the potential President of the United States to knowingly make false claims for political gain to the U.S. citizens in which they intend to lead. This is not a quality of a good leader. When a candidate promotes a public message, I should not have to watch these messages with a great sense of skepticism, wondering which parts are true and which parts are false. I should not have to wait and tune into CNN to see just how misleading the new campaign ad is. Not all U.S. citizens are going to seek out a fact check and this creates a problem when voters go to the booth. A voter may take some of these false ads as fact, and these false ads may replay in a voter’s head at the voting booth. I have had some people tell me things about a candidate’s policies that are completely inaccurate as a result of these advertisements. I believe that before a candidate is allowed to release a campaign ad, it should go through a third party fact checking source to be approved. The American public should not just accept the fact that candidates lie and believe we should just get used to that fact. If there is room to decrease the misleading information from the candidates, it should be taken advantage of.