Political Karaoke

[Danny]

This last weekend a friend invited my wife and I to go to a karaoke bar and hangout. As I sat there and watched something occured to me...politics isn't much different than karaoke. Hear me out. If you take away the loud music, and telapromter most do not have the voice to stand alone and sing acapella let alone remember all the words to the song or write their own music.

So I started to think abou how politicians are very similiar. Most are not strong enough on their convictions to stand up for their ideals without checking the latest polls. Most jump on the band wagon and get lost in the background noise. You hear of speech writers moving from one political figure to another through the generations. Heaven forbid they don't have a telapromter then all the "umms, ahhhs, and aaa"s start to surface.

There are always exceptions but as a majority this is what occured to me, do you agree or disagree?

 

[rph9168]

Most politicians are so far removed from real life that they need to see polls to find out what the real people want. These polls are used so they can say what people want to hear without really having to deal with those people. The greatest example of the use of polling information may be found with the current resident of the White House. His handlers obviously used information from polls very well. In his speeches he said things people wanted to hear quite well but how much do we really know about him? There seems to be more questions than answers about him and his past yet he was elected or was his image elected? Time will tell.

 

[Waxman]

Many karaoke performances are silly.

Many politicians are also silly. So I feel the two equate perfectly.

 

[Tom Thumb]

Sometimes I feel that the average Karaoke player has more common sense than the average Politician.

 

[MikeV]

We knew all we needed to know about the current resident of the W H. He told us exactly what he was goiing to do long before he was voted in, but no one paid any attention to him regarding what he was saying. Most were so mezmerised by his suave demeanor that his real message was lost in the translation. He told us he wanted nationalized health care, he told us he wanted to spread the wealth, he told us he wanted bigger government, he told us he wanted to shut down the oil and gas industry, he told us he wanted to close Gitmo, he told us he wanted to schmooze with the world's dictators...he told all of us that...but got voted in anyway. Now we have to suffer the consequences and we don't like it. Whose fault????

 

[mac]

At least in a karoke bar, if you don't like the place you can just leave. You not only can't do that with the politicians, but they will clean out your wallet before you leave.

 

[rph9168]

Mike V has some valid points but I am not sure about the "we" part. If you look at where he got most of his votes it was in large metropolitan areas where the effort to get out voters who had never voted was phenomenal. In my area there were voter registration booths almost on every corner and in every mall and public place possible. They were busing people to the polls in the inner city.

In reality he was not elected by the "normal" electorate. He was elected by the people who stood to gain the most from his goals - people already depending on the government for their needs.

 

[Sequoia]

Electorate

I'm not sure there is a normal electorate any more. With 50% or more people not paying any taxes at all, they can just vote as a block and increase money to themselves by voting for those who promise to raise taxes. It's like a never-ending money machine, at least until the party is over.

 

[MikeV]

The only problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.

 

[mac]

I'm not sure that's the ONLY problem with it, but that is the one that stops it, which then leads to Marxism. Can you say Hugo Chavez?

 

[intsupply]

Hope is not a plan!

Research a site. Check its price. Check car counts. Research demographics. Check competition. Develope a business plan. If HOPE is your PLAN, I THINK you'll be FEELING alot of pain. HOPE got elected. PAIN is on the way for those without a plan. Hope...feel...think...I call those words ifa-woulda-coulda-shoulda-maybe-mighta-oughtas. Words to look out for. All of which, my friends, are loser words.

 

[rph9168]

Obama Man - with apologies to Sammy Davis Jr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhkF3dqXR0