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BlackPhx -> RE: MoveOns Take on Palin (9/1/2008 7:36:48 PM)
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Fast Reply not pointed towards any one person:
Every election year, we are inundated with ads, political speeches and more bias by the media and political organizations than the demon who invented politics ever dreamed of. Moving on, Democrat, Republican , Independent, this caucus, that TV/Radio Station, all have something to say and what they have to share is going to be slanted in ways that make their choices look good and the other guy look bad. Their opinions do not matter. What does matter is YOUR opinion and that should be formulated on reasoned thought and investigation for yourself of how someone voted on laws, their proposed changes ( which ones are along lines you would like to see and do you really think they can get them implemented) and factors that you think will affect your life. You are not likely to change another persons mind nor are you likely to get a rational answer that will change your mind. It is like asking why someone likes or hates strawberries..if you are on the opposite fence, they ain't gonna change your mind and their answer really doesn't matter.
There is not one blessed candidate that we have been offered over the past 20 or so years that was better or worse or more or less qaulified than the other. The parties deliberately choose that way. You are getting Coke or Pepsi. This year, you get to choose, Young or Old, Mixed or White, and other than that really not a whole lot of difference. One is more conservative by track record than the other, but you know that is again all relative. Once you are in the Catbird seat so to speak, you may be the Commander in Chief but you are only as good as the information you are given and who has your ear depends on who helped to put you in office. Yes, you are the final signature on laws and have veto power, but you can also be overruled and those checks and balances have helped us in the past. Whether we lose the next President to Ol'Timers disease, prostate cancer, heart attack or assassination remains to be seen, who steps up in their place, really isn't likely to have as much impact as one would think. As we saw with Kennedy the country will still go on..and they will still have to run for the office to have a full term. If they are doing badly they will be impeached or not voted in to serve and we will go on. If they are impeached and removed Pelosi will lead until the next election.
We can and may lose a President at any time, no matter who is elected..and we will go on. Until this country gets off it's collective duff and makes an effort to change the way candidates are chosen to begin with, we are going to continue to get only candidates that special interests think or know they can control. Coke or Pepsi..is there that much difference between em..not really someone pass me a glass of Ice Tea...
Oh..and for those who think that Govenorship and being a former Mayor prepares you more for the top office than being a Senator..remember the Peter Principal is ALWAYS in effect. We have already seen it in effect. For those who forgot what the Principal is:
The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." While formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1968 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of Hierarchiology", "inadvertently founded" by Peter, the principle has real validity. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".
Whoile it was tongue in cheek, if you stop and think about it, most of us know at least one person for whom that seems to be in effect..and GW has done a pretty good job of making us look at him with that Principal in mind.
Poenkitten
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