Do you think you have the potential to be a good politician?

Jeanie

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

I saw the poitricks thing you wrote. I know I personally couldn't do it but maybe politicians become more corrupt as they move further up the line. They say money corrupts. The people that are lesser known don't get payed very much so where does it all go wrong if their intentions are only good? They don't all start off bad. What makes them change, if they do at all?

Isn't like running with the bad crowd in High School?

The more you are exposed to corruption and "politicking" the more it rubs off?

RolandTD20Kdrummer

I'd be fantastic right up until my immediate assassination.

g under p

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

I'd be fantastic right up until my immediate assassination.

That's Classic LOL!

Peace
Earle

soulsinging

Jeanie wrote:

Just blowjobs?

You wouldn't get my vote then!

oh dont worry, women not voting would be my next act... they should be busy doing... other things :P

Jeanie

soulsinging wrote:

oh dont worry, women not voting would be my next act... they should be busy doing... other things :P

Trust me ss if I was getting busy doing "other things" you wouldn't have the time or the inclination to be voting yourself, let alone trying to stop me!

MattCameronKicksButt

A lot of the men on here sound kinda the same.

Ahnimus

No I don't, because I think.

MattCameronKicksButt

Ahnimus wrote:

No I don't, because I think.

Actually, that may not be fair. I was expecting to get bombarded with insults so it shows I'm wrong.

Ahnimus

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

Actually, that may not be fair. I was expecting to get bombarded with insults so it shows I'm wrong.

Sorry. I was saying no to being a good politician. To be a good politician you have to sell out your brain.

surferdude

Ahnimus wrote:

To be a good politician you have to sell out your brain.

I thought it was always their souls they were buying. Please explain how one can sell out their brain? Maybe you did have some luck buying that brain you wanted?

Ahnimus

surferdude wrote:

I thought it was always their souls they were buying. Please explain how one can sell out their brain? Maybe you did have some luck buying that brain you wanted?

I mean you become a representative of your party or your community. You are a representative of the people you want to vote for you. Otherwise you will never be elected and will therefor not be a 'good' politician. So maybe you have to change your footing on some issues to appease your voters, even though you might be more sophisticated at determining the best course.

NewSystem

When I listen to the bootlegs depending on when they were recorded, Eddie often encourges people to vote. Now I understand his motives are good and that he wants a better world etc however I feel he should think about covering another Who song and have a wee think about the last two lines. It sums up the world of politcs, even history very well.


We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the foe, that' all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

MattCameronKicksButt

NewSystem wrote:

When I listen to the bootlegs depending on when they were recorded, Eddie often encourges people to vote. Now I understand his motives are good and that he wants a better world etc however I feel he should think about covering another Who song and have a wee think about the last two lines. It sums up the world of politcs, even history very well.


We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the foe, that' all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

I am interested to hear what everybody says but I was just curious to see if ANYBODY had anything positive to say. I have a few family members and in - laws that work in politics and although, we don't always agree, they have the best intentions for this country. I just wonder how it all seems to go so wrong.

catefrances

no.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

surferdude wrote:

I thought it was always their souls they were buying. Please explain how one can sell out their brain? Maybe you did have some luck buying that brain you wanted?

holy...lol....talk about splitting hairs.

Austicman

Excellent Question!!

Yes, I would make a good politician but I don't think I would be a popular one which in real world is what makes you a good one.

Rhinocerous Surprise

I think I'd make a good politician.


Then again, I also think kissing tramps is a worthy cause.

NewSystem

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

I am interested to hear what everybody says but I was just curious to see if ANYBODY had anything positive to say. I have a few family members and in - laws that work in politics and although, we don't always agree, they have the best intentions for this country. I just wonder how it all seems to go so wrong.

There is a very simple reason . . . man is simple not designed to make decisions on what is right & wrong independent from our Creator.

(Jeremiah 10:23) I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.

freedomboy

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

How on earth do you keep everyone happy?

JUST GIVE THEM SOME TRUTH!

I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
Ive had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
Money for dope
Money for rope

I'm sick to death of seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mamas little chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth now

Ive had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
Its money for dope
Money for rope

Ah, Im sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

Ive had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth