MishpishWho else thinks the US election process is a joke?
January 14th 2008 01:49
With still over 10 months to go in the US elections, I'm glad I live here in Australia where only small trivial amounts of news come through. No doubt the American public are already bored to death with the mud slinging going on between candidates.
Two issues keep rising to the top:
1. The Hillary and Obama race is mostly about who can focus less on the issues while just bagging each other's sound bytes.
2. The republicans seems to keep fighting over who is the most rightist christian amongst the lot of them.
The issues are not discussed. No one is really standing up for anything because it's 'the right thing to do'. Except of course Bush, who claims he's doing the right thing by pushing on with Iraq. Even today Bush made a statement that history books will look back and state how US won the Iraq war for the good of the world Time will tell.
Lobbyists quietly pull the strings on all the candidates. Candidates just try to say what they think will get them the most votes in the primaries, which means they are really not saying anything for fear they will offend some of their voters.
Is political correctness killing American Democracy? I think so. Candidates, lobbyists and fundraising dollars seem to tell the tale of the country's political demise. Many journos are now debating on whether the Westminster system of democracy is more 'democractic' than the US'.
It was less than seven years ago when Bush and Gore were waiting for the Supreme court to rule over the debacle in Florida over the counting. If I remember, Gore actually won the public vote, but lost the electoral college vote, and hence the presidency.
When it comes down to it, the candidates should stop talking about each other's failures, and look at how to fix the problems of a country facing a recession, a losing war in the middle east and the rising tide of disillusionment amongst their population.
No one wins
1. The Hillary and Obama race is mostly about who can focus less on the issues while just bagging each other's sound bytes.
2. The republicans seems to keep fighting over who is the most rightist christian amongst the lot of them.
The issues are not discussed. No one is really standing up for anything because it's 'the right thing to do'. Except of course Bush, who claims he's doing the right thing by pushing on with Iraq. Even today Bush made a statement that history books will look back and state how US won the Iraq war for the good of the world Time will tell.
Lobbyists quietly pull the strings on all the candidates. Candidates just try to say what they think will get them the most votes in the primaries, which means they are really not saying anything for fear they will offend some of their voters.
Is political correctness killing American Democracy? I think so. Candidates, lobbyists and fundraising dollars seem to tell the tale of the country's political demise. Many journos are now debating on whether the Westminster system of democracy is more 'democractic' than the US'.
It was less than seven years ago when Bush and Gore were waiting for the Supreme court to rule over the debacle in Florida over the counting. If I remember, Gore actually won the public vote, but lost the electoral college vote, and hence the presidency.
When it comes down to it, the candidates should stop talking about each other's failures, and look at how to fix the problems of a country facing a recession, a losing war in the middle east and the rising tide of disillusionment amongst their population.
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