Too Many Candidates in the Rotunda
I follow politics for the sport of it and I take it about as seriously as I take sports (very interested during the game for the sport aspect of it but, at the end of the day, I turn off the TV and go about my daily life because I have realized that it doesn’t affect my life all that much) and reading stories like this makes me realize that the political process deserves little more respect than that.
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Written by randomfool on January 24th, 2007 with
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Sometimes I wonder if I am being too cynical and too cranky when it comes to thinking about the federal government and its Superbowl, the presidential election. That is, until I read about the aftermath of the State of the Union address on cnn.com. (I opted to make popcorn and watch a movie about trucks with my four-year-old.) There are several things in this story that made me laugh out loud:
- The presidential contenders could not be bothered to sit through the Democratic response, even the Democratic candidates, because they were falling all over themselves to get on network TV.
- There were so many cameras and candidates chasing them that they actually had to wait for interviews so other candidates could finish other interviews because they didn’t want to walk behind and ruin their rival’s interview.
- Hillbillary is now generally referred to as “Hillary, the ‘in it to win it’ candidate”. I wonder if that is going to backfire. It sounds good now but don’t you think that somebody is going to pounce on that and point out that Hillbillary is not “In it for poor people” or “In it for the best interest of America”? Hillbillary should take note of how her hubby once took poor Bob Dole’s line of building a “bridge to the past” and turn it in to the ridiculous “help me build a bridge to the future” sales pitch on his way to humiliating Dole.
I follow politics for the sport of it and I take it about as seriously as I take sports (very interested during the game for the sport aspect of it but, at the end of the day, I turn off the TV and go about my daily life because I have realized that it doesn’t affect my life all that much) and reading stories like this makes me realize that the political process deserves little more respect than that.
Written by randomfool on January 24th, 2007 with
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Read more articles on General Folly and Politics.
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