The I Hate Politicians Thread

GoS · #1 09-30-2008, 03:22 PM

Well, it has been a crazy week in politics, with the McCain campaign being suspended and the bailout and all. And last night, Sep. 29, I saw the most frustrating sign yet. Everyone in the media was surprised by the bill failing and was interviewing anyone in congress who would talk. And everyone they interviewed said "Well my party and I did everything we could to make this work. Blame the other party. They did ____. It's their fault,"
and such.

This is exactly the wrong thing to say at this moment. If the bill would have worked or not, we still need everyone together and unified. Those dirty, no good politicians instead of bringing us together, tried to make themselves to look good and the other party look bad. I am so sick of this, where every one is more interested in self gain and political games than actually helping people, which is, if you remember, why they were elected. I know, crazy, Republicans and Democrats, working together! Well, sorry, I just had to rant about how bad this is.

Chrislit18 · #2 09-30-2008, 03:33 PM

I hate Politics period. The whole thing bugs me.
They're all a bunch of liars, who just tell us what we 'want' to hear.
Plus you either have to go right or left, there is no middle of the road.

Which also attributes to my apathy to voting.

David · #3 09-30-2008, 05:23 PM

I let someone else speak for me here:

The government I live under has been my enemy all of my active life. When it has not been engaged in silencing me, it has been engaged in robbing me. So far as I can recall I have never had any contact with it that was not an outrage on my dignity and an attack on my security.

I'm not even going to identify the author -- because it doesn't really matter. He says everything I want to say, & in better language than I could ever muster.

vivfox · #4 10-01-2008, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David

The government I live under has been my enemy all of my active life. When it has not been engaged in silencing me, it has been engaged in robbing me. So far as I can recall I have never had any contact with it that was not an outrage on my dignity and an attack on my security.

Harriet Tubman??

GoldDustOrphan · #5 10-02-2008, 10:01 PM

It's a quote from H. L. Mencken.

GoS · #6 10-17-2008, 12:03 PM

I found this on CNN and decided that I should post it somewhere it might be relevent rather than create a new thread.

Commentary: Food banks instead of campaign ads

NEW YORK (CNN) -- In the middle of an economic crisis, with a lot of Americans worried to death about how they are going to pay their bills, our two presidential candidates are about to spend an astonishing amount of money kicking the "you know what" out of each other on national television.

This year they are breaking all records in terms of the amount of money spent and the number of negative ads.

A study by the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin at Madison says the campaigns will spend a combined $30 million a week on ads between now and Election Day, the vast majority negative. Watch CNN's Campbell Brown make her case »

According to Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, negative ads are having almost no impact this election cycle. The journal's headline: Ready, Aim, Backfire: Nasty Political Ads Fall Flat.

Why? According to one quote, "Arguing about personal associations pales in comparison to the current grim economic news."

Still between now and Election Day, Obama and McCain are going to spend a combined $30 million a week.

So I'm going to throw a crazy idea on the table that I don't think is that crazy. There is a food bank in Provo, Utah, that feeds the homeless. Joalaina Redbird takes her three small children there. They have all three meals there every day.

They became homeless two months ago when her husband lost his construction job. This food bank is running low on supplies; they have issued an emergency call for help. Because of our economic crisis, donations are way down and the number of people they are feeding is way up.

This story is being repeated all over the country. The Northlands Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter in Grand Forks, North Dakota, is bursting at the seams every night with record numbers of homeless showing up needing a place to sleep, again, a result of our economic troubles. And guess what -- these charities are out of money. No one is giving in these tough times.

So, Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain, how about instead of spending that $30 million a week kicking the "you know what" out of each other between now and Election Day, you pool your money and you give it to that food bank in Provo, Utah, so Joalaina Redbird's kids can get three square meals a day until her husband finds another job?

Give the money to that homeless shelter in Grand Forks or any of the hundreds of charities around this country that are trying to help desperate people get through these difficult times.

If you really care about hurting Americans, put your money where your mouth is and spare us three more weeks of negative ads.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.

It's a nice idea that I think that even everyone might be able to agree with me on. One thing, though. Shouldn't "kicking the 'You know what'" actually be "kicking the you-know-what"? Also, I don't think that either candidate cares about hurting Americans, I think that they care about helping them.