Congressional debate = doom
Collin Williams convinced me to go to the fourth district congressional debate here locally on Friday night. I imagined a giant room filled with lots of concerned individuals and spirited intellectual debate. Instead what I found was basically a lot of verbal masturbation. I expected the interviewer to have a question for the candidates in each candidate would take their turn thoroughly going through each question. That started to happen, but instead of actually answering the questions, the candidates simply complained about the other candidates records. In fact at one point in the process Doug Ose stated he had a rebuttal to something that Suzanne had said. But instead of rebuking something she said he instead took the moment to attack Tom Mcclintock.
It’s pretty obvious that Tom McClintock and Doug Ose have the entire ” coke vs. Pepsi” thing going on. Oh did you say you wanted a third choice? In fact to make matters worse the cameraman for the local news would only take pictures of the “main two candidates”.
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Just as Collin Williams pointed out the media wants to act like the other candidates do not exist. When Collin Williams would talk about this I thought he might have been just stretching the truth. Instead again he is correct.
This really isn’t the verbal masturbation I was talking about in the beginning though. The main problem with the entire process is that a question would be asked of the candidates and they did not respond to the questions. Sure generalities such as “I will do everything to support our troops” were thrown around. And again this masterbatory tactic was used with the topic of lowering taxes. “I will do everything I possibly can to lower taxes” and “I will do everything I can to help with water rights in this district”. So which is it then? Would you support the troops or lower taxes? If it came to one or the other which would you do? You couldn’t get a straight answer from any of them except of course Ted Terbolizard More on Ted later.
So the question came up, “what should we do about the war? ” and the answers you would get “we should do everything we can to support the troops.” Or we “should do everything possible to help our veterans out.” It would be nice for someone to have just plainly said “our policy will be to do this.” Or “we will get the money from here.” Or “we will lower taxes in this manner.”
Actually I guess I have to take part of that back. There was one other candidate besides Ted Terbolizard that did actually state a policy and what way he would enact it. Unfortunately it was WolfGram, and his policy was to have immigrant workers from Mexico come here and pay all their money to the Mexican government. So with his policy we would actually have a bunch of workers coming here and taking their money out of the state. It’s probably one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard in politics.
I can’t write much more on this topic otherwise I’ll have an aneurysm. And I’m trying to outlive Collin Williams at this point.
Now of course there is an exception to every rule. Not all the candidates were wasting everyone’s time. Ted Terbolizard came across as someone who actually has principles. Every one of his answers were succinct and to the point. For example he gave a positive no to a question about universal Health Care. At one point during the debate a question was going around and Ted pulls out his copy of the constitution to give the appropriate answer. Have you ever seen a candidate pull out the constitution to give his answer?
That’s the kind of man Ted is. A man of principle. Hearing him speak made me think that there was hope for the future.
But the rest of it was time I wish I would have spent doing laundry or gratifying myself. I understand now why most people don’t vote. If we arent going to have intellectual debates then this is pointless. I reject useless debates!
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May 11th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I was about 1/4 of the way done with my own article on the subject, when I decided to look at the site and saw you beat me to the punch. Speaking of “the punch” I have a great picture of you and McClintock brawling in the parking lot! Seriously though, thanks for the nod, and glad to see you writing Everest.
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