To be a successful politician you must have the same skills as a professional actor......be able to smoothly lie about a subject of which you have no personal experience as if it was your lifetime career. Be able to show emotion when you feel absolutely none, one way or the other. Make sincere promises that you have no intention of keeping. Convince everyone that you are the lead actor on the show and they must bow down when you enter the room!
This is what makes it so difficult for us voters....are we really voting for the DC Oscars? We must be because we demand these liars be re-elected term after term to put on another fantastic show for us.
My local politicians will admit to your face that their primary goal is to be re-elected, but only in private conversation!
Probably the one thing that bites me the most is when they promise something that takes the cooperation of another 250 people for them to be able to succeed and never ask us to call or write them for their opinion on the subject.
I can't remember one politician running for office, who has ever said, "I will try to (accomplish task) for you if you elect me to (office name). I will need the support of X & X & X & X & X. If you put enough pressure on these folks by calling and writing them, together all of us will be able to do it together." Instead all of them say, "I'll do it for you, no matter what!" Then we are stupid enough to vote them into office believing every lie that spoke to our faces.
But is it interesting to see these loons going after Bush over this issue when the words out of their own mouths so easily refute and convict them.