Posted by
Bob Parks on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 5:39:17 PM
As I watched the run-up to Super Tuesday, and saw people come and go from the polling place, I’ve come to realize just what suckers we voters are.
Think about it….
The presidential candidates always make us promises. The People get all starry-eyed and become believers. Depending on which party is in power, we’re always worse off than we ever were, or we want to do even better than we are now. Some want to be “agents of change”, while some want to come off as a reincarnation of a legend past.
Every four years, we get all caught up in the craziness, and after the election, reality sets in.
Like many other things, until civics is taught properly in our schools, politicians will set up the uninformed electorate, and we’ll disappointed again. Why? Because we’re electing a president; not a king or queen.
Hillary Clinton is saying she’ll end the war, while also giving us all health care whether we want it or not. Since she’ll require congressional and senatorial support to do either, not really knowing what the political make-up of those bodies will be, there is no way she can make that promise honestly. It may be a nice goal, but to say she’ll do it and have people believe she can, illustrates just how clueless the American people are assumed to be.
Remember, in 1992 Bill Clinton campaigned on a middle class tax cut. Even with a Democrat senate and congress, he realized within days after being elected, that he couldn’t make that happen. But it was okay. He got elected, and that’s all that mattered.
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