Dirty Politics

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This is something I was thinking about today.

Human beings aren't perfect. Right? Right.

Politicians spend their entire lives wiping away all the "dirt" that could possibly be dug up later and used against them when they run in a campaign. Right? Right.

So if "dirt" is uncovered, and is used against them...9 times out of 10, they lose the race to a person who has no "dirt" on their record.

So basically, our whole system is not run by people who are by nature clean and pure. It's run by people who hide their "dirt" better than others.

Huh.

 

[bknight2602]

And your point is?

 

[ZIP CODE]

And your point is?

No point. Just thinking. Retard.

 

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Nothing new, it's been that way since for a long time. I'm reading a book studying the character of Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson. Burr was a valiant Revolutionary hero but was polite, hestitant to verbally attack opposition, and didn't have a tactical longrange gameplan. Hamilton was a valuable asset to the Revolutionary War and in financially stablising the young nation but he was aptly deemed as highly obstinate, was too obvious about his overriding agenda, and showed signs of manic depression.

Jefferson was a master of words, meticulously molding his image (both for his times and the history books), and through pre-empting actions enacting his overriding and lasting agenda. He stumbled into the spotlight, in fact he basically copied in meaning the Declaration of Independence from earlier versions by George Mason and Richard Henry Lee-he made them sound poetic. He was noticably absent during the WAR both on the field and was not effective his sparse political WAR duties. His consistency, political genius, and steadfast nature caused him to be by far the most successful and most fondly remembered. He was also the most malicious, had the most dangerous of international biases, basically he had the poorest character of the three. His dirt was very compact, the public and today's common conception deem it to be pottery.

Everyone has dirt in politics, they can be successful if they are as cunning as Jefferson or force the public and press to have extremely low expectations regarding their intellectual capacity, ie Reagan. The cunning meeting genius may last centuries. Reagan is or should be highly scorned by every generation, past and present.