So the 2010 Mid-Term elections are finally over, and I gotta say: thank friggin' God. Can we as a country have a small break from all these constant elections and punditry? The races haven't even been called in some places, and already I'm hearing talk of election 2012. These guys are worse than baseball fans. The World Series can be over for thirty seconds and then you'll here the fans grumbling that spring training is too far away. If FOX News and CNN had written our Constitution, we'd have an election every two weeks.
I keep hearing that "the Republicans won last night", "Obama lost", "this is Sarah Palin's victory", "the conservative wave", etc. No, the Republicans did not win last night. This wasn't their game. Individual candidates were chosen by their constituents as temporary (and replaceable) representatives over their opponents. The American people did not like the job some Democrats - and Republicans were doing, and they lost their Congressional office. And nobody "won". You can't "win" an election - the election isn't the game. Governing is the game. Representing your people and doing your best to serve them is the game of politics. If you don't do that, you lose. It doesn't matter how many terms you might be elected, and it doesn't matter what your poll numbers are, if you don't serve your people, you are a failure of a politician.
I don't care if Christine O'Donnel ruined the Republican hopes of taking the Senate. I do care that she ran and believed in what she was running for, and I do care that she was chosen by the Delaware Republicans as the candidate. People are blaming her for a Republican defeat, as if she were a lineman that let through a sack. Personally I don't believe she could have served her state as well as Christopher Coons, so I'm happy she was not picked. Glenn Beck can gloat as much as he wants and Christ Matthews can try to explain away the Democrats poor standings last night with any kind theory. This election, all their commentaries, everything, its all a side-show. It can be entertaining at times, but its all nonsense in the end. As much nonsense as the arguments over Islamic community centers and anti-homosexual posturing. Colors on a map are nothing more than that: colors on a map.
Sarah Palin can go to Disneyland to celebrate her "victory". I say, let her enjoy it. She gave up her elected office years ago, she has no responsibilities to the people anymore. But as for everybody else, you're going to have to wait a bit longer before enjoying Pirates of the Caribbean. You have won nothing yet. Let's see you create jobs, solve the war in Iraq, and make America the free and equal nation it is supposed to be. This goes to you too Obama: you haven't lost yet. There's still a recession to get out of and a war to fight. Remember those?
Nothing lasts forever, new issues will come and go. Another election, another chosen candidate, another few years in office, same thing over and over. Many people complain that America is in a horrible state, but we must not forget The Great Depression which was followed by World War II.
ReplyDeleteThe America's will solve their problems, and so will the rest of the world. If only humanity learned to work together...
BTW, I hope you've seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyKYiJkvg98
Your mention of Disneyland reminded me that a friend of mine is going to Disneyworld for Christmas. I offered him fifty dollars if he could provide a picture of Goofy getting punched in the stomach.
ReplyDeleteBLUEHIGHWIND FOR PRESIDENT!
ReplyDelete^This man speaks the truth.
ReplyDeleteI just think it's really stupid that people blame Obama for the recession. Just two years ago it was sliding toward the biggest depression in the country's history and his administration stabilized it. These things take time to recover, people are just really shortsighted.
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Random:DAMN YOU BLUE I LOST THE GAME! T_T
ReplyDeleteOn topic: I completly agree with you, politics is looked at too much like a game. You really can't win an election, and even if you do "win", you can just as easily "loose" or be replaced with the snap of a few thousand fingers.
Although I do believe Obama won't sum up to much, all he really is is a black guy who got elected, he's no better than Clinton or Bush Jr. This country hasn't had a decent leader since, for the Republicans - Regan, and for the Democtrats - Carter. Everone else has been a side show. Everyone else has just sat in a chair and spun around shouting "weeee!!!" with a five year old's happy face. Even though I vastly disagree with Regan and what he did, at least he did SOMETHING. Clinton had it right in the begining, but he fell apart. Bush Sr could've amounted to something half decent, if he got elected for another term, and Bush Jr just cried like a 2 year old durring 9/11 and Katrina, then spun around in his chair shouting "weee" the rest of his terms. Obama...he literally cried in office and just did basically nothing to healthcare (wtf people? Obamacare is basically the exact same f*cking thing!! It's like the Peace of Augsburg and the Peace of Westphalia, they're basically the exact same thing!)
-- NeoBahamut/WrexSoul45
Carter was a terrible leader. Clinton was much better.
ReplyDeleteThe recession isn't Obama's (or Bush's) fault (it was mostly due to policies established during the Regan administration), but it's his duty as the president of the United States to do his best and better to attempt to fix it.
ReplyDeleteWhat's sad is that, for most politicians, the important part of their job is over for now. Elections shouldn't be the goal, it shouldn't even be the beginning. Sadly, to most of the politicians active today, their job is nothing more than a game of thrones.
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ReplyDeleteThis brings up an interesting point.
@Blue: Comparing the first four years of Clinton to Carter's only four years, yeah Bill has him beat easily, however as a whole, Carter is better by a relatively slim margin. If Clinton didn't fall into that sex scandel, which did ultimately ruin his presidential and political career. Clinton's first four years were what this country needed, but in the end his scandel took away from what he could've done durring his second term, and thus some could say, laid the foundations for the recession we're in now. All Bush did was just water the seeds that Bill planted.
ReplyDelete@Drake: I completely agree, Reganomics totaled this country. It killed the unions which made an unbalance in power and made this country a Republican-dominated state.
Also @Blue: I'm making a guess that you're relatively Democrat, and thus I'd like to see you at least touch bases on the Keith Oberman scandel.
-- NeoBahamut/WrexSoul45