10-14-2012, 05:18 AM
(vikm) wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
[quote=Black]
[quote=decay]
"Anyone who thinks they know what's best for 300 million people is a titanic asshole. So we're just voting for king of the assholes."
That's an incredibly ignorant statement. Good enough for a passing laugh in a sitcom but that's about it. Not all presidential contenders make silly claims like "knowing what's best for 300 million people." Our current president has been clear from the start that he sees his responsibility as trying to represent the interests of the majority of Americans, and drawing on experts in many areas to determine the best course of action for those considerations. If the public is not willing to vote for someone unless they purport to have all the answers, then it's pretty clear who the assholes are.
The "all politicians are _______" attitude is something lazy people hide behind when they don't want to make the effort to find out who the good public servants are. :agree:
And while I won't go so far as to say "all", far too many of them are in fact "special interest backed, no good _____________". It's not hard to go back through even recent high level politicians and see this. They are supposed to be cream of the crop representatives. Bush and Edwards come to mind. In my opinion, it's lazy to call people lazy that are of the opinion that "all" (when they really don't mean all) politicians "____________". Especially when there is reason to believe that many are miscreants or whatever based on evidence. I think many are taking things too literally on this topic.
Nonsense. It's lazy to say that it's lazy to call people lazy that are of the opinion that "all" (when they really don't mean all) politicians "____________".
