3rd September 2008, 9:00 PM
Yes, it's rather shameful.
As a reality check, the democrats have abused the truth some as well, though not nearly to the same degree. There's been far too much pandering "across the isle" so to speak. It's the sort of thing which makes even the most leftist of major American politicians fall squarely in the "middle" of places like Britain. By other nation's standards, we don't actually HAVE a left (the insane rantings of the objectivist movement, and the mystical hippie style of environmentalist that does nothing to actually help scientific environmentalism notwithstanding).
Yeah, I'm still voting for Obama as he's certainly what I'd consider better off for our nation than the alternative (and by a huge margin I'd say at that). It's just a shame that pandering has become more important than reality.
Moving along though, I'd also say here's hoping that this cycle wakes people up to a number of things, from the ridiculous focus the media has on idiotic inconsequential stuff like whether someone "supported" a candidate convincingly enough (instead of "electability", which is really closer to "nothing" as that's determined by the VOTERS, try the actual positions on policy), to the strange history erasing double think that a lot of politicians get into.
I've heard some people say that if someone wants Obama to be elected, then we need to stop pointing out when he screws up. I've got higher allegiances, like to truth. Failing that, it's all only temporary victories with the same sort of deception of the masses that leads us to having Bush elected in the first place.
As a reality check, the democrats have abused the truth some as well, though not nearly to the same degree. There's been far too much pandering "across the isle" so to speak. It's the sort of thing which makes even the most leftist of major American politicians fall squarely in the "middle" of places like Britain. By other nation's standards, we don't actually HAVE a left (the insane rantings of the objectivist movement, and the mystical hippie style of environmentalist that does nothing to actually help scientific environmentalism notwithstanding).
Yeah, I'm still voting for Obama as he's certainly what I'd consider better off for our nation than the alternative (and by a huge margin I'd say at that). It's just a shame that pandering has become more important than reality.
Moving along though, I'd also say here's hoping that this cycle wakes people up to a number of things, from the ridiculous focus the media has on idiotic inconsequential stuff like whether someone "supported" a candidate convincingly enough (instead of "electability", which is really closer to "nothing" as that's determined by the VOTERS, try the actual positions on policy), to the strange history erasing double think that a lot of politicians get into.
I've heard some people say that if someone wants Obama to be elected, then we need to stop pointing out when he screws up. I've got higher allegiances, like to truth. Failing that, it's all only temporary victories with the same sort of deception of the masses that leads us to having Bush elected in the first place.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)