Monday, April 16, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
The Importance of Ethics
Ethics are an important part of our lives. They dictate how we should live our
lives. They should also dictate who runs
our lives as a collective community. I
agree with Angela Albright’s blog posting “Who
Can We Look Up To” http://www.angelasgov.blogspot.com/2012/03/who-can-we-look-up-to.html,
at least in part.
Yes, one’s ethics is part of the job. At least it is as President of the United
States. Who you are as a person dictates
whether or not you get to be in the position to run our country. However, I feel that some parts of an elected officials private life, even if they portray them in a negative light, have nothing to do with how well they represent us. Take Bill Clinton for example. Yes, he had an affair, but he also was an excellent President, balanced the budget and put the United States in a period of economic growth, and during his two terms, the American Public was at relative peace. Does Clinton's infidelity make him unfit to lead us? Are our leaders supposed to be without fault?
However, one's ethics in relation to leading a country is a completely different story. Flip-flopping ideas just so that you can stay away from anything too controversial, being penalized for 84 ethics related violations in Congress. These things are far from their private life, where their decisions don't affect us. These are the things we should be looking at during elections. They speak volumes of their character.
So yes, ethics are important, but we can not expect everyone to be perfect.
However, one's ethics in relation to leading a country is a completely different story. Flip-flopping ideas just so that you can stay away from anything too controversial, being penalized for 84 ethics related violations in Congress. These things are far from their private life, where their decisions don't affect us. These are the things we should be looking at during elections. They speak volumes of their character.
So yes, ethics are important, but we can not expect everyone to be perfect.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Two versus One
In most cases, a two-on-one fight would be considered unfair
to the lone contender. However, the
Republican Primary is not most cases.
Rather than it being a team ready to attack President Obama, Rick Santorum
and Mitt Romney are more like (in an effort not to sound extremely nerdy) an allegiance
from the Hunger Games, they have picked off all of the smaller contender
and now that there is only one big fish left, they have realized that one of
them will ultimately have to kill the other, resulting in them turning on each
other. By doing this, Santorum is giving
Obama a huge advantage, by not only alienating Republicans from Romney, but by
also preventing Romney from focusing on Obama.
Santorum and his aides have acknowledged that despite having
a small following, his chances of receiving the Republican nomination are slim,
but they will not stop fighting. This
could only be better for Obama if Santorum was an independent who has close
ties with the Republican Party, but doesn’t support its candidate. By turning people away from Romney, with help
from Obama, Romney is losing not only the Democrats and Liberals, but also
Republicans who agree with Santorum: Romney is too moderate. Santorum couldn’t be doing a better job. By the time the Republicans announce their
candidate (big surprise on who that will be), Obama would be more than well
rested and ready to fight, while the Republicans would still be recovering from
their most recent battle from within their own party.
From a Republican view of things, this might seem
counter-productive to have the party fighting amongst themselves when they
should really be focusing on Obama. However,
like many others, I do not mind this development in the slightest. Let them fight amongst themselves and left
the wounded victor to try to salvage those who had been on the other side while
facing the brunt of Obama’s campaign. So
go ahead and fight to the death Republicans, and remember one thing as you put
in tons of money and time on this campaign, we will all be waiting for you at
the main event. And we will be ready.
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