I was going to post this on tt this morning, but since it is down, I will post it here. I may post it there later.
Posted by
tRuMaN (aka Truman)
Sep 4 '08, 07:30
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lyk. its thursday, I would like to make one political post (intentionally). this is my three most disappointing items in the presidential politics, in my opinion. I am not trying to pick specifically on one party or another (ok, my #1 issue I am, but you will see why) the first two are just general comments.
3) Experience. There is only one job in this county that could actually prepare a person for service as President, and neither of the top two candidates have had it, IE the V.P. position, and even that is a far cry from what being the President is actually like. So could someone please stop with the experience crap, it doesn't matter if someone is a war vet or not, or if someone wrote laws or not, or if someone was a governor, a party leader, a mayor, a community organizer, an outsider, whatever. None of them actually have any experience being president.
2) Hope. I think that Palin (did anyone else notice that you could just switch the order of the A and L and get Plain?) almost had it right, when she made the comment about some people using Change to further their careers, and some using their career to further Change. But in reality, Hope is the stickier word. Both candidates are using Hope (hope for change, Hope for maverickness, Hope for Hope) to further their career, not using their careers to further hope.
1) McCain. I am so disappointed that a at-one-time maverick, who has became almost a standard-issue-republican, is now trying to rewrite the last 8 years to say he was a maverick the entire time. But really, I can live with that, every politician does that when they run for Presidency (ok, everyone I can remember, but I am still pretty young, jaded, but young). What bothers me the most is that this self described "different cut" of a politician, who used to have something as nifty as the Straight-talk express, has upon becoming the presumptive nominee, and the determination of his main political rival, fallen back on the old republican play book, which he has many times in the past, decried. A Politician who used to talk about not using attack ads, runs them constantly. A Gentlemen politician who said he would only discuss his opponents positions, has attacked everything (experience, positions, policies, lack of experience, whatever) with the same type of ads he wanted to see gone from politics. I used to like McCain, because he seemed like the kind of guy who wouldn't let the Political system overrule his own values, but instead, he has shown himself to be just as vulnerable to the system as every other politician, which makes his claim of being a Maverick nothing more than words.
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