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Politics and Whimsy
Politics and Whimsy i cannot claim ownership of any of these statements but i can most definitely agree with some. i've numbered them so we can play a little game. choose those that suite your current political mood. and let's see just how we're all feeling about the state of the state of politics in america. i'll leave you my list of favorites in the comments. enjoy. 1. The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII 2. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop 3. If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers 4. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato 5. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev 6. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow 7. Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown 8. If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno 9. Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton 10. Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer 11. I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952 12. A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~ Texas Guinan 13. Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal 14. I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle 15. Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan 16. Politics: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"] ~Larry Hardiman 17. Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson 18. Don't vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown 19. There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers as an american, i relish my right to vote, but i also recognize that my vote has less power than i would like and my voice is often not heard at all. the tea party had money and became powerful the 99% had no money...where are they now? i have never once been called for my opinion. never once had a candidate, even local, show up at my door. i ama vocal and fairly visible person in both my city and community. i vote in every election held. i often work for candidates. i have been a front line protester many times. seems odd that no one wants to ask me my opinion. or does it? You cannot conceive the many without the one. |
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Politics in Canada is the same but different. I actually have had numerous candidates come to my door and had interesting discussions with them. But in the end it seems the results are the same...sigh.
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GOOD BLOG. ---------------------Dennis US ARMY (RETIRED) AND YOUR FRIEND I never mean to offend(blog or comment) anyone ,If I do contact me please. Please check out my blog Harley-Davidson Drive(19harley86)
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I thought of you yesterday when I read that there is a guy named Joe Keighley running for some governmental office in Canada. He's better known to punk rock fans as Joey Shithead, the lead singer from DOA. And I thought "he ought to run under his pseudonym and advertise himself as the one candidate who is honest about what he is."
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I agree with all of them. Politics make me sad. I understand I have no value to the politicians. Even my vote is made null.
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I liked all of them. #14 is my favorite because it is serious business and no one seems to take it seriously. I email my representatives constantly and it is interesting that only 1 responds to my emails. I've never had any knock on my door. It seems the only way to get your voice heard is if you are wealthy, a lobbyist, or a celebrity. And what do any of them know about the economy and issues of the real people who live here in the US? Never ignore those who care for you you will have lost diamonds while you were collecting stones
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15 and 16 are my favorites...lol
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LOL. You don't want them asking your opinion. The surest method for failure is to get an increasing share of a decreasing market.
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I can agree with a few, here goes: #4,#10, especially #11 what with the negative tendencies of many I will admit to haveing been a life-long republican until ~2006. No remember, there USED to be LIBERAL REPUBLICANS and we were fairly common here in the northeast. So I was one of those now extinct LIBERAL republicans, who was for real fiscal restraint and a seriously crafted and stable safety net. The party that I joined when I was old enough to vote is certainly not that party any longer. And I'll also admit that I rarely voted for an elephant on the national tickets, right from the get-go. Tricky Dick vs McGovern? NO choice. Have you read any of Kevin Phillips' work, Wicked? He writes well and tries to explain how the rich are returning us to a feudal society (my words, NOT Mr. Phillips') Chas < who really does fear that the liars will win again in November! Oh Dear.
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Well, oui-oui... It would seem the list of political pseudo-quips is endless. Here's another of them... "People have got to know whether or not their President's a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." ...Tricky Dick (uh... Tricky--I think we had it pretty well figured out long before you left off from that huff. Know what I mean, dude?) 1Sa 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. 7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. This "land of the free and the home of the brave(?)" is exactly what we deserve: a dysfunctional national family-unit. And it started the day we all became convinced (wrongly) that the US government (with all its States included) is, somehow, a "democracy". Of course, with even the most cursory overview of the founding history and the first hundred years of our existence under the Articles of Confederation, and the eventual Constitution, it can be clearly understood that... it was NOT intended to be... a "democracy". Then again... could a Republic truly function more effectively? Hey... who freakin' really cares! (That's rhetorical--hence no question mark.) The following is not particularly a political pseudo-quip... but it does speak to the problem: "...It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy." "...The people flatter themselves that they have the sovereign power. These are, in fact, words without meaning. It is true they elected governors; but how are these elections brought about? In every instance of election by the mass of a people--through the influence of those governors themselves, and by means the most opposite to a free and disinterested choice, by the basest corruption and bribery. But those governors once selected, where is the boasted freedom of the people? They must submit to their rule and control, with the same abandonment of their natural liberty, the freedom of their will, and the command of their actions, as if they were under the rule of a monarch." ...Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee The dilemma is not politicians--they merely promise whatever is necessary to elicit forth the lowest common denominator from amongst the electorate, thereby gaining for themselves the highest accounting of "democratic" votes available. It is the peeps who are at fault--they merely vote for what is promised; for that which purports a filling of their gullets and for which the politician lacks no willingness to abide such glutton. Of course, these "voter peeps" also are fully aware that anything promised by a politician... is nothing more that campaign rhetoric and will never be materialized beyond the ability of the peeps to cough up all that they have in order to receive back tidbits of it in the form of the master tossing table scraps to the family dogs. It is truly a dichotomy of immense proportion, is it not? It is those voter-peeps who are the true wolves in sheep's clothing, crept into the totality of the socialized flock--seemingly unawares, by such same flock. Seemingly; I would reiterate. Solar...
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Those are some trenchant quotes there. #4, #8, and #10 resonated with me the most.
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i choose #13 i truly believe that anyone wanting this job must be power hunger and/or mentally compromised. You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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Well, oui... I can assure you I did not ask for this nor anything else they offer. I do not vote. Never have--never will. Now, most "democracy freaks" will heap rather large mounds of dung upon my head for it, to wit: "You ain't got NO RIGHT to criticize... if'n you ain't been doin' no votin'!" But, as I see it: they ain't got NO RIGHT to criticize... if'n they be doin' ANY votin', seein's how they done spoke volumes of their ignorance... by way of them hangin' chads. BTW: I choose #18. Solar...
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Ya just gotta wonder... If they gave an election and nobody voted, who would be king--O'Romney or MittBama? And would the FED still get to print money? I mean, we ALL could use some more money--am I right... or what!? Solar...
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