Evan Bayh is spot on
I think this might be my last post on politics, although one can’t be certain of something like that. I’d like to focus the blog more on what drove me to create it: giving back to the Internet community with useful technology posts. I think that’s a laudible goal and I think a ton of great information comes out of blogs.
The world is well aware of Obama’s somewhat nasty comments about rural, working-class Americans. Read all about the vitriol Obama spewed here:
“So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” Mr. Obama said, according to a transcript that appeared Friday on the Hufington Post Web site.
I just had to post about this piece in the New York Times Caucus Blog about Senator Evan Bayh’s comments on Obama’s “bitterness” fiasco. Here’s what he had to say:
“I’m concerned that statements like this, even if they’re taken out of context, can be used very effectively by the other side to keep us from getting the change that we need. Look at John Kerry – served in Vietnam, won medals. Look at what they ended up doing to him by the end of that campaign. Look at Al Gore, won the Nobel Peace Prize now, you know, an Oscar. They made him look like he was a serial fibber and so forth. So the important point here is that they can use this politically to damage Barack.”
Wow. He is spot on.
The Republican spin machine can work veritable miracles in duping the American people into fiction versus fact. Hillary Clinton has stood up to this crap for years. She can take it and she can deal with it. She can beat the Republicans at their own game. And that’s why it’s so important that we elect a President that can play the Republicans’ own game.
Hillary for President!
The spin cycle runs both directions. The dems have every bit as much negative baseless spin going on as the repubs. It’s not the republican’s game, its politicians’ collective game. When either side manages to pigeonhole you into closing your mind and deciding to be pro one part and anti another, they win. It doesn’t really matter what side you picked, the important thing is that they conned you into playing their game.
The real answer is more 3rd-party and independents of all flavors in congress and the white house. Neither party wants this to happen, they’re happy with their death grip on America. Our system of voting (not the electoral college, but the mere idea that you only get a singular vote to cast in a given race) has been mathematically proven to be (a) the most unfair (to the people) of all reasonable voting systems, and (b) to be the best one at reinforcing two-party dominance.
So if you want to fix US politics, drop the petty issues and start pressing hard for the most fundamental of reforms: fixing the voting system. Instant Runoff is vastly superior in reflecting the will of the people and not propping up the two most dominant parties. There are other mathematically sound voting models as well, all better for America than the current system. Fix that, and the rest of politics will start fixing itself on its own.