Aug 29 2008

Ugly nature of Politics

Published by at 10:06 am under General

I have never bothered with politics while i was in India, didn’t have any opinion about it and stuff. After i moved here, i thought things would be better out here in terms of politics but i was wrong. By better i mean in terms of scandals, honesty etc.

 

Surprisingly I have followed elections this year very closely, specially the Democratic primary battle between Hillary and Obama. No holds barred, that is the policy when it comes down to politics play to the psyche of the people and win.

 

I just want to list few instances of how politicians backtrack and play to the psyche of general public. Its my personal opinion i could be wrong and few might disagree with me as well.

 

New Hampshire primary, Hillary cried on camera and won it. I personally think it was a very well planned thing and it simply made voters sympathetic towards her specially women. The 3 am ad during Texas primaries was a masterpiece in highlighting Obama’s lack of experience. 

 

I have been a Obama supporter mainly because he is a straightforward guy which he demonstrated during the debates with Hillary. When asked if he would invade Iraq again after pulling out of it just because Al Qaeda had a base, his answer was a firm Yes while Hillary didn’t give a firm answer. During the end of primaries Obama was against the popular move of eliminating the state tax on Gas to lower its price. 

 

Obama, he isn’t all about being honest and straightforward.He has backtracked on some issues as well, he initially said that he would use the public funding system if his republican counterpart agreed to same but he backed out later, I don’t blame him he is raising millions more as compared to Mccain. Its an advantage he doesn’t want to loose as simple as that. Obama was against offshore drilling but then he said after a while that he would reconsider that option. 

 

He made lot of promises rather very grand promises during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) acceptance speech, it would be interesting to see how he keeps those or whether he keeps those if elected. Isn’t that the question we always ask about politicians. 

 

Bill Clinton, I was completely surprised to see how much he praised Obama, during the primaries he didn’t think Obama had enough experience to be a president but at the DNC he was all over Obama. Did he have a divine realization before the DNC that people were having same accusation against him (lack of experience) when he was running for presidency?

 

The best of all is the choice of VP for Mccain, Sarah Palin. She is a mom of 5 and looks gorgeous, i wonder how many men would vote for her only because of that. It is obvious that Mccain camp wants to attract women voters and it was highlighted by the fact that as soon as Sarah got on the stage she appealed to them. It doesn’t matter that she has been a governor only for two years and has lesser experience than Obama, she is going to bring in all those women votes for Mccain. By picking a woman they are playing to the psyche, its an added bonus that she is hot and ultra conservative as well which works for lot of republicans.

 

One of my friends told me, in presidential election you just have to pick the lesser of two evils. I would pick Obama if i could vote in these elections.

 

 

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