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Leonardo -> RE: Bush's Press Conference (3/23/2006 3:09:29 PM)
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There are many people who like to gripe about stuff. Your vote is your voice. When you vote, you are voting for someone who best represents your views, or supposedly so. The popular vote is not worth much in presidential elections anyway. And the president is actually the least important to us re our daily lives. Unfortunately we as a society have been brainwashed into thinking that the presidential vote is the only vote that counts and forget everything else. Why do you think that the largest voter turnout is during the presidential election years? Even the off-even gubernatorial elections don't bring out as many voters to the polls as do the presidential elections, even though the governor actually most likely affects your life on a daily basis much more so than does the president. And I have seen Mayors get elected with just 53 votes... not 53 more votes than the other person... 53 votes for that one candidate in the odd-year elections! De facto, the ones who affect our daily lives mostly are the local and state elections, i.e. City and County elections, and the State House and Senate.
And, yes, though I agree that most politicians lie, cheat, steal, are scoundrels, so is Wally World, yet there are many who go shopping at Wally World regularly. I spoke with a distributor today who said it doesn't make sense that so many of the small businesses complain that Wally and his cousin Sam are putting them out of business and they are so bad and all, yet they go and buy their merchandise and supplies from Sam. Folks stagger to the polls and vote dry. They stop at the convenience store and spend $100 on lottery tickets yet they vote against gambling. They vote against sunday alcohol sales and then they head out to the private club after church for a beer.
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