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Originally posted by Buff@Mar 26 2003, 05:48 PM
Hahaha A Great Man??
He was a career politician! A leech on society. A lying, hypocritical sack of dog shit, JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER POLITICIAN.
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So, what have YOU done to stop the trend?
Have you gone out and voted for someone running against the incumbent? Have you even voted? Don't give me that line about "no one worthy of voting for". There are constntly good independent candidates who get lost in the shuffle, but if enough "disenfranchised" voters got together (especially locally) they could propduce a mighty large swing vote (look at Jesse Ventura getting elected as proof). Maybe you should throw your hat in the ring and run for office. While there are a lot of crooks and morons running and getting elected all the time, there are also a lot of men and women there trying to make things better (even if it's only in their own state).
Everyone chimes for things like term limits. Great idea until you realize the next election may produce two weak candidate when the current office holder is doing just fine. By voting, people could get term limiots without mandating them. Why was he a lifetime politician? Gee, maybe the people in his state did this crazy thing called voting and kept re-electing him. Maybe he was doing just fine and there was no reason to otherwise put someone else in office all those years?
I remember taking a Government course in highschool and one of the things that my teach said that stuck with me is "Politicians don't represent the people, they represent the voters"
Back on topic, RIP Sen. Moynihan.