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I listened to old This American Life's from 2000 today at work, and since it was an election year there were several profiles of a valiant political reformer running for the republican nomination- John McCain. And it made me sad, sad to remember how idealistic and hopeful he and his campaign were in 2000, and sad to see how much has changed between then and now.
In the McCain/Palin ticket it is not McCain that scares me so much as Palin, whose gubernatorial and mayoral records smack of the same sort of loyalty politics, and cronyism that have dominated the Bush/Cheney White House. well considered policy is never created when you surround yourself with friends who have the same views you do, and good government never occurs when you fire people who stand up to you for moral reasons. If nothing else, this is a lesson we should have learned from the "your doing a heck of a job brownie"/Harriet Meyers for SCOTUS debacles.
This is not to say that BHO has never sold out an idea for political expediency, (his timetable for Iraq withdrawal is a prime example, which while a great political view, will likely be drastically changed once in office and meeting with Patraius) but more to say that we should have learned something from history, nothing good comes out of Taminy Hall, nor Daly's Chicago, and nothing good has come from the same style recently, we must not allow it to continue, and should be more concerned about this, then empty rhetoric from a "hockey mom" promising change.
In the McCain/Palin ticket it is not McCain that scares me so much as Palin, whose gubernatorial and mayoral records smack of the same sort of loyalty politics, and cronyism that have dominated the Bush/Cheney White House. well considered policy is never created when you surround yourself with friends who have the same views you do, and good government never occurs when you fire people who stand up to you for moral reasons. If nothing else, this is a lesson we should have learned from the "your doing a heck of a job brownie"/Harriet Meyers for SCOTUS debacles.
This is not to say that BHO has never sold out an idea for political expediency, (his timetable for Iraq withdrawal is a prime example, which while a great political view, will likely be drastically changed once in office and meeting with Patraius) but more to say that we should have learned something from history, nothing good comes out of Taminy Hall, nor Daly's Chicago, and nothing good has come from the same style recently, we must not allow it to continue, and should be more concerned about this, then empty rhetoric from a "hockey mom" promising change.