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The GOP just released a so-called "Pledge to America," which is really a pathetic attempt to keep the Tea Party from splitting the vote. Neither the GOP nor the DNC leadership seems to really get it, and most of the Tea Party spews forth more hateful vitriol than Smaug.
There is apparently a scandal from the White House that some of Obama's senior policy-makers and top generals do not agree with him. I can see how that can be spun as a negative, but think about it intelligently for a minute: do we really want our Chief Executive Officer surrounded by yes-men? How could a few people willing to stand up for what they believe in be a bad thing?
Of course, I am putting my own spin on things. It is hard not to. It seems like nobody cares about what is right anymore, only what is good. Good is subjective, right is fact. Do you seek out what is right, or only what is good?
I should note here that my argument was not that Sarah Palin slept her way to the top, as Eva Peron is so famously depicted as doing. I wouldn't demean someone's character that way when it seems quite unfounded. I was just saying their arguments sounded creepily similar. And their fear tactics. Interesting parallels. And yet, they both brought out the vote.
ReplyDeleteCoop -- I didn't expect such a deep post. I hadn't thought about the good vs. right idea much before. I think I'll chew on that one for a bit.
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