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In reply to the discussion: Why JE must be discredited at all costs. [View all]dadchef
(31 posts)I find that my advanced age can/does make me, and others, a true defeatist when viewing our new politicians. I sometimes try to forget my own personal experiences. I tend to not listen to the words a candidate speaks, because in reality if they are saying what I agree with, I have come to the conclusion that I really want to put the speech-writer in the office, not the reader. Then I discovered that most words that end up in speeches are poll tested phrases. WHAT?
In reality what I have proven time and again is that the only things I can really trust is that a person is the accumulation of what that person has actually done in his or her own life for real. However, nothing has changed since the days of the old fashioned smokey back rooms where the good old boys, picked the candidate. It is still happening in-spite of what we think. What happens now, is that the GOOD OLE BOYS are statisticians, screenwriters, smut-mongers, and big money lobbyists.. NOW they are looking for someone that has a well scrubbed past, or even worst, someone without real past experiences, someone that they can develop into a great story, with little or nothing to contradict their wonderfully contrived story..
What the packaging pros are really seeking are good looks and great speaking voices, and beautiful families, but no controversial achievements that cannot be explained away with a few well chosen clever quips.. PRETTY, EMPTY SUITS, or TRUE CON-MEN. The real leaders will not give up their hard earned, well paid, achievements that can be destroyed by well placed media journalist..
I grew up in the real Democratic political machines, Mayor Daley's Chicago 11th ward. I got to see a true leader, a man that knew his city and held the bull by the horns, and his constituencies benefited. He knew the realistic possibilities for compromises that were fair for everyone. I recall a news conference, when a young journalist asked him a what he thought was a gotcha question that stunned the room. Had the Mayor given his oldest son the insider info to win a great contract for the insurance on all city autos and equipment, (I don't remember exactly what it was) but it was a huge contract.
The Mayor, who wasn't pretty or charismatic, looked at the reporter and answered without hesitation, and said YES he had given his boy the lowest bid information, and said that the city got the best, lowest price imaginable. Because he had not been a great father because he dedicated his personal life for his loyal Chicago citizens, and it was the least he could do as a father, and a fiscally prudent Mayor.. The oxygen left the room, then suddenly burst into applause.. NEXT QUESTION.. HA!