Anyone else turned off by how 'petty' the whole political process seems to be?

[fskimospy]

Has it always been this petty?


Yes.

 

[Acanthus]

It is incredibly petty.

It should be made flashy to draw public interest and pull out voters for your cause, beaten to death on the news about real issues...

Id rather be sick of hearing about x candidate that i want to vote for than hear about palins weirdly shaped nipple or mcains old balls or obamas origins.

I want to know which candidate is going to stop wasting all of our fucking tax money, stop my job from going to china, and pay down our national debt so money will be left over to invest in american interests.

Right now America is a Chinese interest. It's a damn joke.

 

[zerocool84]

Of course this was ganna turn into a flamefest. Why can't we all agree that both sides do it and do it well. They pay people millions of dollars a year to find dirt on other people. And yes, it seems like it's even worse this year.

 

[Red Dawn]

I find it funny as hell.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Joe, would you disagree with me that things have really gotten bad in the last week??

How many threads about Palin do we have now?

Yeah it was as if this forum was invaded by a bunch of ProJo Clones.

 

[Druidx]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Exactly, I can't believe the entire RNC speaker list used the podium as a pulpit to launch attacks, instead of present ideas.

You're no better blowing smoke out of your ass all the time about republicans.

LOL

 

[Moonbeam]

Politics is often bitter, but 8 years of Bush have severely damaged the nation and a mass of fools who voted for that destruction will vote for 4 more years. I don't see how people who can think wouldn't be bitter about such a bunch of assholes.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: winnar111

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe

Originally posted by: winnar111

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe

Originally posted by: winnar111
Not surprising. Look at the left wing blogosphere and their Bush assassination movie that they masturbate to.

Always blame "the Left". Typical losar111 post.

Not all the blame, just most of it, at least for the last 7 years. People like Jerry Falwell existed, after all.

And Rush, Pat Robertson, Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich...

When did those men spew personal insults traitor-in-chief macros and call for the death of the leader of this nation?

Last time I checked, Bill Clinton might have been impeached, but he didn't authorize illegal wiretapping of Americans.

 

[Triumph]

I don't disagree that it is all very petty. What the hell is "momentum" anyway? All anyone talked about during the primaries was this nebulous "momentum" which is really just another way of saying that people only want to vote for the guy who is going to win, rather than voting for the person they believe in. And we have no one to blame but ourselves, because we love it. The best thing that you can do is to turn off the cable news channel and skip the newspaper articles that have attention grabbing headlines. Just like with advertising, if you stop paying attention, it'll go away.

The real problem is 24 hour cable news. There simply isn't that much important news going on to fill the time permitted. Thus they create stories to have something to talk about. Couple that with a 24 hour life in the video spotlight, and you have a recipe for muckraking journalism. Abraham Lincoln was a tall gangly dude with a high pitched, irritating voice. But it didn't matter because most people had never seen anything other than a photograph of him. Thomas Jefferson was an introvert, who much preferred writing at his desk to appearing in public. He gave his inaugural address in such a soft voice that most people didn't even hear it. James Buchanan was single when he was elected, had a 20 year "roommate" with a guy, and his niece fulfilled the role of first lady. William Howard Taft weighed almost 350 pounds! People like that wouldn't be elected in today's media spotlight. Think of the field day the news would have. The media was guilty of muckraking in those days too, but the effect was not as pervasive as it is today.