Politicians are humans like everyone else. Put yourself in their shoes for a minute. You just won an election by a narrow margine where only 50% of those that can vote did. Now you have to go about an already tough enough job and you find out 75% of the folks you work for don't support what you set out to do. It's a wonder anything gets done!!
Then we are all two faced with respect to morals and such. A sports figure or rock star sleeps with 10,000 partners and is a hero, it's acceptable, the guy is on the road and has needs!!! The CEO of a big company buys call girls for his business contacts to win the big deal and it's acceptable too, even uncle bob who has a certain charm with the ladys is still looked on as a family hero of sorts... Let an elected official (not just Bill) fall prey to temptation and he's a sinner and has hurt everyone so deeply!! Guys put on beer
and the selection starts looking better real quick. Gals use power and fame as their beer
... It's easy to resist from across the room but have a gal wave her tail under your nose and pur at you. Temptation gets real hard to resist!!
I would never suggest doing away with the political system we have, I just think once the election is over we need to support whoever ends up in office. The best plans don't work if the other party throws out too many road blocks and that's exactly what happens... A good idea doesn't have a chance to get off the ground. That's where I'm going with the divide and conquer. I can enter my car in a show and loose to my buddy and I have nothing but good to say about him and his car. I played ball for years and compete against friends and win or loose we still had beers after the games. A far cry from an election but if conservitaves had respect for liberals and vise versa we'd all be a lot better off. To put the blame for the economy on one mans sholders or even the party he represents is foolish. We tend to do just that and it doesn't matter what the problem, if you're unemployed it's the other guys fault. Gas prices too high, ya, we can blame them for that too... Immigration, Ya he caused those problems too and chased business out too!! Just easier to cast blame and down a beer than to get involved and work to making a change...
Sorry for the rant but this whole political views and opinions thing doesn't sit well, if your not part of the solution your part of the problem. I'm may not agree 100% with some former and current elected officials but I'm proud of each and every one for stepping up and doing a job I don't want!! In many ways they are like our military forces and police and fire fighters. They are all doing the dirty jobs so we can enjoy freedoms that come with being an American.
