As far as I know the next presidential election is still a good year and three fourths away and yet it seems the time to start campaigning is now. It is always interesting to me that politicians can now stop doing their job and start trying to make people like them again. Barack O'Bama recently had a speaking event in Los Angeles to try and rummage up support for himself in the Democratic primary race. I believe he's a senator presently but not for the state of California, so it seems like his constituants should be a bit frustrated that he is not working for and representing them right now.
My other frustration with politics is this: O'Bama, along with most other politicians I've ever heard speak take on this crowd pleaser act of saying only things that sound good. Like "Our schools need to be improved, our public education systems is a mess and we can't cripple our children like this." or maybe "Our healthcare system is out of control, quality care is not readily available to all citizens, prescription costs are through the roof, and 35% of our citizens do not have adequate coverage" (I made this stuff up but it sounds like maybe I could pass as a politician.) So the natural response would be "hey O'bama, thanks for telling us how crappy our country is but what are you going to do to fix it? and if you say you're going to look it over, get all the information and come up with a plan then point me to some one with a plan so I can vote for him/her." However, that is not the response that comes. Instead people applaud and cheer and put bumper stickers on their car because for some reason they aren't able to remember the last time they heard a politician speak and say the exact same things. Its absolutely ridiculous!!!!!
Everytime I think about possibly getting into politics I have to stop and remind myself that I would never make it because I don't have it in me to tell people exactly what makes them feel warm and fuzzy all the time. Honesty and action seem to have very little place in our political system, but we only have ourselves to blame, we're the ones that elect these dorks.
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I'd vote for you if you ran
Your observations are interesting. A leader will stand up with a plan and a call to follow.
A leader will not check polls, will not keep stating the obvious, but will say we need to go this way and do this. A Nehemiah type.
So far I have not seen a leader step up, just people who can read what the papers are saying and those who don't like the current administration. Mike Miller
Your observations are interesting. A leader will stand up with a plan and a call to follow.
A leader will not check polls, will not keep stating the obvious, but will say we need to go this way and do this. A Nehemiah type.
So far I have not seen a leader step up, just people who can read what the papers are saying and those who don't like the current administration. Mike Miller
Your observations are interesting. A leader will stand up with a plan and a call to follow.
A leader will not check polls, will not keep stating the obvious, but will say we need to go this way and do this. A Nehemiah type.
So far I have not seen a leader step up, just people who can read what the papers are saying and those who don't like the current administration. Mike Miller
Big Miller Time for President.
We just watched "Man of the Year", good movie, about exactly the same thing, politicians not really being different, just re-hashing what other people have already said. I get so sick of 535 elected officials who work 100 hours and think they've done enough work to take the next month off. My tax dollars at work. There are so many REAL issues that need to be dealt with, most of them much more pertinant than filibustering judicial nominees, or making symbolic votes on nonbinding resolutions about a war that needs to be finished.
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