POLITICS

To keep political discussions from outnumbering everything else, this would be a good place to have a political discourse without driving others nuts.   If anyone sees fit to move existing political threads here, that would be cool.

I have to agree with Khassy, that if you look at the off-topic forum, it is overrun by political threads.  Now, while some of us like political scraps, a lot of folks are turned off by it.  It's easy to get engrossed in this stuff and lose sight that we've got "topic sprawl".

By the way, you can change the title within a thread to differentiate things within a thread.  I did it with this reply.

Too bad we can't have the real music.

Wouldn't dream of criticizing yo da-da, or yo ma-ma, either. 

Fascinating.

Until that happens...


When will Congress stop this bull crap of bundling unrelated issues into the same bill?  This nonsense of you want that, I want this, so you can't have that unless you vote for this, is total garbage.  Come to think of it, so are many of the rules which permit a minority to thwart a majority.  I don't care which party is doing it.

All bills should stand alone.

Filibuster and cloture rules are stumbling blocks to representative government.

I think the inability to compromise has made the two party system no longer viable.  Perhaps a three party or one party system...

Unfortunately we are now a nation of professional politicians.

The saying “Little Billy, you too can grow up to become president” is still possible if:

You are

Of the right genetic makeup
Have a mediocre political background
Can read extremely well
Are good looking
Sound sincere
And most importantly – are the one the media wants - so they will not expose or continusaly sensationalize any aspect of your career, beliefs, or background that may in any way be harmful to your campaign.

Very, very, very true. Thanks for making my point for me. The operative words you used were “You can't win if you are seen” and more importantly “seen”. Who determines what information people receive and base their judgments on?

The media.

Who presented us with a community organizer with extremely questionable credentials (possible fraud, graft, association with terrorists, heroin user, influence pedaling, racially bigoted – please remember Al Capone was only a tax cheat) who lied about his not wanting to run for president even before he took office in DC?

The media.

Who never questioned his background but sent over 20 investigators to Alaska?

The media

Who never explored his proposals but tried to destroy a private citizen who had the gall to question the Messiah?

The media.

So yes, as long as the media wants to determine who we should have as president it will be hard not to be seen as what they want to present you as.