Four score and seven years ago, the 2012 presidential election got underway.
It began when Barack Rama Lama Ding Dong Obama and Nitt Witt Mitt Romney escaped the womb, were slapped on their fannies and shouted, “And if elected, I will…”
Or so it would seem.
Nowadays presidents begin their reelection campaigns even before they decide to run in the first place. Just like Christmas goods starting to sell in September, presidents are sworn into office and immediately begin swearing at their enemies, real or imagined.
The problems with politics are many, first and foremost being that there are politicians involved. They lie, every single one of them, they have to, to forward their agenda and get elected. There’s no other way. If they told the truth, we wouldn’t trust them. Who trusts people who speak their minds?
It’s like when a woman asks, “Do these pants make my butt look big?”
The man involved will hem and haw and say, “No, of course not,” and he’s lying and the woman knows it but she feels better being lied to, and that’s that.
Or if a man asks if he’s the best lover his woman has ever had and the woman involved will hem and haw and say, “Of course, there has never been any better than you,” and the man knows she’s lying but he feels better being lied to and that’s that.
Lying in politics is a huge industry, big bucks at stake, donations for campaigns, ad time on TV and radio and in print, it’s astounding.
The money spent is staggering, and all of it produces content that we, the distrusting voting public, look at in utter disbelief, proclaiming this side or that to be liars and taking comfort in the fact that maybe, just maybe, our side isn’t lying as much.
Partisan politics astounds me, people who are so beholden to their particular party they are blind to the possibility their candidate may be as full of just as much crap as the other guy.
Personally, I’m a staunch nothing, I don’t buy what either side is selling and find it amazing that people who are staunch Republicans or Democrats do.
I know a guy who is a staunch Republican, give him any opening, like saying “Hello,” and he’ll launch into a diatribe against Democrats and liberals and tell you why you’re wrong if you are one and should come to the other side. I like the guy, he’s a great guy, smart, fun to talk to (except politics), but he’s painfully politically one sided.
read the entire article in the November edition of the South Coast insider
