Why hating Bush is empty sport
 

A little kid grows up watching baseball and roots for the players. When the team wins the players are celebrated. When it loses, the players are booed.

You get a little older and you wonder why the manager didn't take out the player who got booed, when it was the bottom of the 9th inning and you actually wanted your great backup shortstop in the field at that moment, to guarantee the best defense.

You get a little older again, and you wonder why the owner runs the team like a mediocre business, why they don't put "baseball people" in the front office and improve the farm system to guarantee a stream of good young talent.

A little kid grows up watching politics and roots for George W. Bush... or whomever. When Bush appears effective he is celebrated. When he appears ineffective, he is booed.

You get a little older and you wonder why the Republicans nominated W. in the first place, when effective and real leadership generates decades of loyal voters.

You get a little older again, and you wonder why the system generates such mediocrity at all levels, and why the real leaders seem absent in lieu of so many empty suits, and why the voters don't seem to care about competence whatsoever until the shit hits the fan.

Cause everyone knows that when a "real leader" shows up he is a fake?

I personally think that you have to lie to become elected since it is a popularity contest. If you can't lie, then you won't become elected. Who are the people going to vote for?

Candidate 1: We are going to improve the health care of all Americans and education for everyone all with lowering taxes. Did I forget our plan to create a balanced budget?

Candidate 2: We are going to improve the health care of all Americans and education for everyone but unfortunately to pay for all of this, we are going to have to raise taxes and we will work our best at a balanced budget.

Yes politicians lie. Why? We want them to lie. Therefore we vote for the liar ("I have a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam"), and then complain that politicians lie.

Saudi Arabia is said to have a technique to measure each leader. The ambassador would arrive to introduce himself to the new president. Then he would 'accidentally' leave a briefcase with one million dollars. If the White House called him to return the $1million, then they knew what kind of man this president was. Nixon did not call. Extremist conservatives called Nixon an honest man.

The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them.