Why Obama, Clinton, and McCain love to promise “change.”
Did you hear the joke about the three U.S. Senators who promised the voters “change” wherever they went?
It sounds like a joke. And it is.
Change we can believe in, Mr. Obama? Tested and ready, Mrs. Clinton? Agent of change, Mr. McCain? I think not.
You expect me to seriously believe that you are uniquely qualified to bring about change in Washington? To that I say this, what the hell have you been waiting for?
Each of you has been a U.S. Senator for sometime now and yet very few Americans can name even one major accomplishment brought about by any of the three of you, the “last men standing” in the race at this point.
You are quick to use clever and clichéd throwaway lines in each and every speech you deliver but what have you really delivered as a U.S. Senator?
When you repeatedly use the welcome word “change,” you are clearly simply pandering and completely disconnected from reality. You pay the expected lip service to the huddled masses at each campaign stop but you also conveniently ignore facing the monumental problems that will shape our world in 2009 and beyond.
Here are just a few of the top issues facing the next president:
Balancing the ballooning budget. Ending political partisanship and bringing about real bi-partisan cooperation. Bringing the economy out of the current or pending recession. Defeating terrorism and protecting our homeland. Saving the Social Security system. Making health care more affordable and obtainable for all Americans. Fighting global warming. Establishing peace in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. Illegal immigration. Bringing the troops home sooner rather than later without jeopardizing our accomplishments in Iraq.
Here is what I know about your “qualifications” to deal with the aforementioned problems:
Barack Obama’s milestones: Won Illinois Senate race in 1996. Lost race for U.S. Senate in 2000. Delivered keynote address at Democratic National Convention in 2004. Wins race for U.S. Senate in 2004. Launches campaign for presidency in 2007.
Hillary Clinton’s milestones:
Enters Wellesley College in 1965… as an active Republican. Changes mind, becomes a Democrat in 1968. Becomes the First Lady of Arkansas in 1978. Becomes the First Lady of the United States in 1994. Elected to the New York Senate in 2000. Re-elected to the New York Senate in 2006.
John McCain’s milestones:
Graduated United States Naval Academy in 1958. Volunteered for combat duty at the outbreak of the Vietnam war and began flying carrier-based attack planes on low-altitude bombing runs against the North Vietnamese. Shot down over the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi in 1967. Spent five and a half years in various prison camps, three and a half of those in solitary confinement, and was repeatedly beaten and tortured before he was finally released, along with other American POWs, March 1973. Graduated National War College in 1974. Elected U.S. Representative in 1983. Elected U.S. Senator in 1987-present.
And one of you is going to successfully bring about real change? I truly doubt it. Where’s the beef? Where’s the proof you can create change?
To be fair, each of you has had a few noteworthy moments during your careers in the Senate, but not one of you stands out from the crowd with regards to accomplishing real change.
So now we’re supposed to just swallow your promises and hope for the best? Not this voter. No way. No thanks.
If only bringing about change was as easy as simply smiling into the camera and promising it.
Frankly, if we put the three of you in a canvas bag, shook it up, and then watched to see which one of you fell out first, I don’t think it would make one bit of difference which one of you did. You are three peas in a pod: Politicians who want to be president and will say or promise anything in order to accomplish your goal, especially change, a proven crowd favorite.
Free enterprise, originality, and entrepreneurs bring about change, not politicians. Politicians merely specialize in promising it.
The fact of the matter is, we don’t really want change. What most of us crave most is actually stability, a happy family and decent schools for our children, the capability of owning a home and paying the mortgage on time, a stable job, and a few dollars in our pocket from time to time to enjoy the rich tapestry of life that this great country offers.
So pardon me if I don’t drink your Kool-Aid of change just yet. Your insessant promise of change is already leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
But you have a few months left to convince me to vote for you. So go ahead. I dare you. Give me just one real reason to believe you will truly bring about change and not just more of the same.
Seed Newsvine
[...] 16, 2008 You all know I’m not big into politics—religion is my bag—but after reading this guy’s post, who’s obviously hipper to politics than I am, I’m finding myself agreeing with him. [...]
The song is getting old. HRC: he has no experience. FOX News: He has no experience. Mc Cain: He has no experience. This is a tired song. Everyone who says Obama has no experience has no experience themself. No one has experience before they get there, yes not even Lincoln had experience. Show me one president that had experience as president before becomming president. Please someone show me. First it was, Wow look at him go. Now that he is actually winning, panic has set in and now it’s time for america to see what we have allways seen for the last 45 years. Fox News and the like to Plan their attack to destroy their enemy. This time their enemy is Obama and they will do their best to destroy him using the same tactics used to destroy others. By polluting the minds of the american people before he reaches the presidential nominee. It will be very hard not to see this as an racial attack on Obama. We know that Fox News and others like you can’t stand the idea of a black man in the white house. We know that your programing is to teach hate and fear to the american people. I ask the american people to be wise and remember that we have seen this fear of change before. Remember that we have watched them change the minds of people by repeating the same negative thing over and over again until some of us start believing it. Don’t let their fear become your fear. Vote for Obama, vote for change. This country needs it bad. Let’s see something good in our life time.
HAH, this gave me a *chuckle* at best. You make a lot of claims son but how are figuring on backing them up? Do you have any solid proof besides your opinion that none of these three candidates has enough experience or do you plan to just ride your half-assed theory out and see who bites? Come on, I’m not even old enough to vote and I can tell you you’re full of shit, “I dare you. Give me just one real reason to believe you will truly bring about change and not just more of the same.” believe me, there are plenty of people willing to believe it, and trust me, you’re not talking about them convincing you to vote for one rather than the other, you’re talking about one of them getting you to vote at all from the sounds of it. So what if you don’t vote? If everyone out there that doesn’t think the promises of change are true were to not vote, what then? Only the people who do believe the hype will vote, and then you can just go ahead and count Obama in.
To PR: Silver-tongued snake that Obama is. I don’t give a damn if he’s black or white, or red, yellow, blue, green, aqua. Who cares really, what year are you living in? Oh sure, those same folks that “are just from a different time” are still around and such, but in the end, do you REALLY think the fact that he’s half black will have a damn thing to do with him winning the election?
Fuckin eh guys, I feel the same way about change, don’t get me wrong, I just don’t like your way of presenting it. As I’m sure you don’t like mine but hey, here it goes right lmfao…
There won’t be change, there can’t be change, and ya wanna know why.
“Balancing the ballooning budget. Ending political partisanship and bringing about real bi-partisan cooperation. Bringing the economy out of the current or pending recession. Defeating terrorism and protecting our homeland. Saving the Social Security system. Making health care more affordable and obtainable for all Americans. Fighting global warming. Establishing peace in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. Illegal immigration. Bringing the troops home sooner rather than later without jeopardizing our accomplishments in Iraq.”
Is pretty much right, and the basic outline. That’s right, it’s not that these candidates aren’t qualified to make these changes. No. It’s that there is no human on earth that can make these changes in the way we need. Cause you think that short list is the only thing going on? HAH, were it that, even Bush could have come out of this thing a winner.
No, it’s that and about a million other things. (Million probably a pretty significant over exaggeration) and the truth is, not one person, and not even one government full of people have the mental capacity to work all this shit out in there heads, on paper, in files, each one is going to effect another, you can change one thing, but it’s going to change something somewhere else as well. You try to put money into healthcare, you’re gonna be taking it away from somewhere else. You try to cut taxes here, you’re gonna bring up the price on something there. It doesn’t matter what you do, to do something in one place, you have to pull from something somewhere else. Thus, change is not possible, and it is going to take years and years and years of slowly working on one thing to get it healthy, before we can shift our attention to work on something else. But wait, now there are a hundred new problems that came up while we were so focused on the one problem. OH MUTHA FUCKIN SNAP! What now whoe!? It just won’t work, I’m sorry to say.
But hey, maybe we could, I don’t know, take a look at our values, as in, how much we’re worth. The income of American’s is way out of whack. How much money does I president rake in each year? How much is he given for free cause he is the president? If we’re lucky, he’s doing his job…I don’t get so much as a pat on the back for DOING MY FUCKING JOB. That’s what we’re here for right? But no, president gets all this money with our nation as his playground. He buys himself a sand box and sends in his underpaid toy soldiers to play in it while he looks on :S we pay people millions of dollars to go prove that they can shoot a three pointer or get a slam dunk. Or that they can knock over a defender and get into the in zone! SSSSSCCCCCCOOOOOORRRRREEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Really? Let’s give them a fifth of what they make now and put the rest toward cleaning up these problems we have in America. I bet they still live comfortable lives, they won’t go hungry, people will still love them, and people will still come to see them. Michael Jordan would have been just as good at basketball making 40-60k a year as he was with what he was making at the time. (Can’t find the figures)
I got the below on WIKI whatever…it shows the salary cap per team in the NBA. This is how much we pay these fuckers per year to put on a show for us.
Salary cap in the NBA
For a more detailed discussion, see the article NBA Salary Cap.
Similarly to the NFL, the NBA’s salary cap is calculated as a percentage of the league’s revenues. The salary cap for the 2007-2008 seasons will be $55,630,000[3]. The NBA’s salary cap is a so-called “soft cap”, meaning that teams are allowed to exceed the cap number in order to retain the rights to a player who has already been on the team. This provision is known as the “Larry Bird” exception, named after the former Boston Celtics great who was retained by that team until his retirement under the provisions of this rule.
And as the excerpt says, it’s the same in the NFL, and by time we get into the MLB, the NHL and the PGF. Holy shit, I wish I were good at sports! Give me a break, these people offer very little value to society really, they entertain us. What else are they doing? Donating a few million here a few million there to charity on occasion? What about the Military? Who go to work each day and what they do influences the security of our nation? What about the cops, who day after day ride our streets and make it so that there are only 7 murders on TV each day as opposed to 100. What about the guy that works a second, (volunteer) job, cooking big pots of stew to feed homeless and hungry folks in our own country? I guess we don’t buy tickets to go see that stuff though huh? So I guess they’re just SOL…Thanks though guys
you’re doing a good thing so keep it up. LOL yeah, we’re looking for heroes around every corner and crying every day cause we can’t find one. They’re all around us, we just don’t see them, cause they’re not Rollin up in limos at movie premieres and such.
You want change, but no one wants to give anything out of their pocket to achieve it. No one wants to sacrifice anything of theirs to get us there. But hey, I’m not rich and famous so it’s easy for me to say take their money. It’s easy for me to say, if I had that kind of money I would… but the truth is, has one of them, just one of them, even tried it? To see how bad it would be? I bet if they took a step back and examined it a bit, they would see. That if everyone that was in their position did the same thing. They COULD make a change. Even a small one would be something. It would be a start. Senators, governors, sports players, newscasters, music artists, movie stars, CEOs, Shareholders, and on and on and on. I’m glad our nations wealth is so well distributed…
You say these three aren’t suited for change, you say give you one reason why they are. I say give me one person who is.
/rant off
Dear ROFLSOX:
Based upon your assertion that you are not of voting age, combined with your clear mastery of the English language–not to mention tedious “text speak”–filtered through your keen and vast insight–peppered with your propensity for profanity, I simply must ask what milligram of Methylphenidate you are currently subscribed?
Please ask your Mom to raise a window shade for you there in that lonely basement once in a while and consider asking the local health department doc to up your meds in the interest of alleviating your anxiety and overactive imagination.
Regards,
Robert
P.S. I admire your restraint and refrain from using the word “dude” anywhere in your sleep-inducing diatribe.
Enjoyed the read and used it for a source in my english paper. While the teacher may give me some flak for your credentials, of which I have no idea, I couldn’t resist. perhaps when I am finished I’ll send you a copy and see if you enjoy it.
Dear Kal:
I would love to read it. As for my credentials, should they ask, inform him/her that I am an incurable political junkie with over three decades of observation and history under my belt which has helped to develop my keen insight, powers of observation, and unbridled opinion.
Best wishes on your English paper.
Robert