I get really frustrated when politicians run their office with the purpose of being re-elected. Deciding what policies to go with depending on the polling numbers just sounds wrong to me. I know that some of that is due to democracy, but in some cases, a leader just needs to forget about what your voters will say and fix the problem. If people weren't so worried about being re-elected, I bet we'd have a solution to health care and social security by now. The reason we don't is that there is no solution that will please everyone.
I want to see politicians declare at what stage of their political lives they will decide to actually accomplish something and not worry about re-election or worry about how their party will do in the next election. Can you imagine if Obama decided now that he would not seek re-election in 2012?
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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That will be easy to accomplish if people reminded their elected representatives who got them elected in the firt place. Second: I believe term limits should be the norm (so the politicians can get to cozy with the lobbies).
ReplyDeleteThird: make the presidency a 1 time 6 year period instead of a 4 (without the worries of reelection he may be able to do something. Of course this is accademical
sorry ,it was a typo...what a meant was (so the politicians CAN'T get cozy with the lobbies)
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