A hefty-sized portion of U.S. politics (or, to be fair, politics in any country that so much as flirts with the concept of democracy) is, for the folks running for office, about convincing the citizenry that, whoever you are, you can identify with commoners. The rest? Well, that’s mostly spent on making said suckers believe that you’re actually working on their behalf.
Sometimes, circumstances deal our elites a fortunate hand in this regard. Sometimes, they don’t. Either way, every four years, the United States gets itself all worked up over the perceived successes and failures of the past Presidential administration–and the potential successes and failures of the next. And what takes center stage? Stuff like this.
It’s a stupid argument: Fact is that neither of those bamas–or, really, anyone who can afford to run for the U.S. presidency–can claim to live (currently, that is) like most of the people they’d like to rule. Still, for the most part, campaigns spin away, doing their level best to prove that their candidate can–you know–like, eat with the people.
Maybe it’s ’cause he’s pretty much guaranteed to be re-elected whenever he runs. Maybe it’s ’cause not a single fucking soul on the face of this planet believes that the Kennedy family parties somewhere south of the highest possible tax bracket. Maybe no one gives a fuck. Any of these reasons could explain the silly Edward Kennedy video tribute that the Dems ran on Monday night at their convention. But that doesn’t change the fact that–in its role (after all, everything at one of these get-togethers is geared toward getting one particular duder elected) as a part of an event that’s supposed to convince the U.S. masses that the party throwing the…uh, party is the one that they can most identify with–the thing was a total failure.
Attention the duders responsible for crafting that fucker: A yachtsman yachting on his yacht is not the picture of your average U.S. citizen. So, you know, like, STFU.
1 Comment
December 6, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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