4 Responses to “Reason #31 to VOTE FOR Obama/Biden”

1. 1 PunditMom on October 6th, 2008 9:45 am

   And what’s with announcing ahead of time their plan for a smear campaign? They thought we wouldn’t notice and they wanted us to? They’re proud of the tactic? Still scratching my head on that announcement.

2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on October 6th, 2008 9:50 am

   Thanks, PunditMom. The whole approach is just so counterintuitive – I have had this argument several times with Ohio blogging friends but I maintain that this distinction we make about how it’s okay to be nasty in politics but not in real life or how we raise our kids to be just isn’t right. I do not understand why we’ve come to accept the unacceptable for the purpose of winning – we don’t allow it in sports, or academic challenge and a hundred other areas of life.

   Why politics? We have no one to blame but ourselves.

   I’m not blameless, btw, I’m sure I do my share. But name-calling? Really not so much. Most recently, a regular reader and Ohio blogger disagreed with me vehemently on my judgment about a post which he felt was a smear, I disagreed. So there are those things.

   But to out right say: we will attack your character – I don’t get that.

3. 3 Oengus on October 6th, 2008 10:18 am

   It has been said “destroy the competition” not everyone hates the opponent. Politician do that and the populous responds, not all but some people really enjoy being critical. Many see so much as being one of two things. Right or wrong, is it that speaking truly objectively is often seen as contradictory or even being a personal advocate of something. Not always and the media has in many instances totally abandoned objectivity for manipulations. How could anyone be so stupid to fall for this, that is a logical manipulation. Agree or you are stupid. When it is devoid of that and it can be is it seen as boring?

   This election got a bit like American Idol,

   If you get into the body of legislation, then you get into all the game playing and all the special needs and lobbies. Not all people care about the health of the people or the services given some care more about the opportunity to set up capital deriving ventures for friends and relatives, often under the guise of offering something to the little man. It’s like the union that is more concerned about the union than the labor. Middlemen that are greedy and do to much and return to little in value added. It makes people lazy and complacent it actually is the problem of entitlement.

   There is a huge difference between help and support. Help is a leg up and support is dependency and has a sense of entitlement especially once it is established. You could help people get off the support and that requires self motivation, self awareness.

   It has to do with economic feasibility, that being able to exist with little help and then it is a societal behavior to be to proud to ask to be supported.

   Palin messed up she should have asked for help, not support and she needs to demonstrate more, talk more and say more. Sadly she may have to actually be more than she is. Not sure about that, the leader needs to make people feel good, but also be a mechanic that can see it all and how it all interrelates.

   The parties have different approaches and the naive population gives credit often for the economic cycles that lie perhaps outside of the political cycles. The populace is not that economically savvy, they got the touchy feely thing down and often not much more than that. Must be rough when the one you actually hate does exactly the right thing, there is price to pay for undermining the integrity of that, that being not only not realizing it as the correct thing, actually working against it.

   We need to address the need and the greed, within society as well as the government that plays into it. The middle class does not get handouts nor do they have access to profit sharing. It seems to be fighting off poverty and in some cases selling its souls to get richer.

   I’m about ready to offer up a testis for a true moderate that can see the big picture.

4. 4 Reason #30 to VOTE FOR Obama/Biden | Writes Like She Talks on October 7th, 2008 12:01 am

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