January 3, 2008
The Facts
In a speech yesterday John Edwards said if he was elected President he would put together a list of one million ordinary men and women from around the country who would meet once a year for input to Congress.
My View
What an honorable and unique idea! Having “we the people” tell Congress what we expect and what we want once a year rather than every four or six years with our vote. Incumbents usually don’t start listening to “we the people” until election year. The rest of the time is spent taking care of themselves and their wealthy and powerful “friends”.
Edwards has been saying a lot of things lately that appeal to the strong anti-big business, anti-government voters. He has talked very strongly about his dislike for the greed of big business, higher taxes for the middle class at the expense of lower taxes for the wealthy, outsourcing American jobs, and union members being ignored. These four things probably affect more average Americans than any other four issues you could come up with, health coverage accepted. So why is he continually running third or lower in all the polls? My feelings is I doubt if he will be able to do much about any of these issues, except maybe the health care issue, and maybe this is what everyone else is thinking. These four things I mentioned have become so deeply corrupted that one person can not change it even if he is President. It would literally take an “act of Congress”, and ever single Congressional member is too corrupted by these things that they will never act on any of them.
My candidate support mindset has been jumping back & forth between three or four candidates in both parties. I am listening to what they are all saying very closely, but to be fair and honest with myself, I have to consider what they will be able to do if elected. As usual, once a candidate is elected and in office, politics will get in the way of keeping his campaign promises. That is, unless they were lying to begin with just to get elected.
Filed under: Democrats, Presidential Campaign
