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That's a pretty pathetic "ad", and that's coming from someone that will probably vote for him (I'm on a kick of voting against most/all incumbents; it's my personal form of term limits as they're supposed to be implemented).
Instead of focusing on politics, she needs to let those who have invested their lives into health care, do what they do best. $4 generics have trumped tax-payer funded government pharmaceutical programs. A free market trumps a government regulated one. Instead of demonizing health care providers and finger pointing at profitable operations, we need to recognize that we all value our health and have the capacity to empathize and act without government interventions. By allowing the experts to allocate the proper level of health care to all, we will find a better solution than the obsolete one touted by Democrats like Halvorson.
Being a sufferer doesn't give you knowledge to correctly end the suffering. Wanting a solution doesn't give you insight to the best solution. Halvorson and others are grasping at solutions that sound right to their political ears, rather than allowing a solution to be found by the experts.
We live in the 21st Century, not in the old one size fits all 20th Century. We are supposed to reach beyond traditional politics and discover better solutions within our society. Parroting obsolete industrial age political solutions in order to get votes and political power is disingenuous.
Tears may get votes, but they don't find solutions. Sincerity doesn't trump facts, one of which is that Halvorson is wrong.
Wow. That might be the quote of the cycle. Not only for the laughably absurd way it aggrandizes Oberweis, but for its embarrassing forced coyness.
Unlike the last person the GOP ran for that seat, who was a publicity hound who was in it only for himself, Sauerberg is the exact opposite. Sauerberg genuinely wants to makes things better in government.
Right wing or left wing, we do need more folks like him in government. Folks who are passionate enough to care no matter how nerdy they come off.
The video isn't bad at all. The sentiment is honorable, and putting more videos online addresses the criticism of the campaign for not doing enough online. Sure the delivery wasn't perfect and the quality isn't the best, but at least they're putting out something that has Steve looking slightly more senatorial.
BTW - since we seem to need to get this on the record, if asked, I too would accept and serve in the Senate. Anyone else? Vanillaman? Ghost? Rich?
I would not serve if appointed.
That is all.
I know, wishful, naive thinking ...
If drafted, I would serve in our military. If asked to serve in public office, I would also do my civic duty. And unlike the current occupant in our senate seat, I would first learn my job responsibilities and demonstrate an ability to be a great senator before trying to run for the White House.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, but most presidential candidates are in it out of personal ambition.
The only two presidents I can think of in this century how ran in order to do what they thought was right for the country were Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. And I'm not entirely certain about Reagan's motives. A Jimmy Carter only comes once in a century. Too bad he was well-meaning but just in way over his head. Conversely, Obama's in it for himself AND in way over his head. We're really going to be in a mess if he wins. Look at our state after 6 years of the photogenic, populist but incompetent Blago. Now, think of that fiasco on a national scale. What a nightmare.
That video is mediocre, but not really funny until 5-10 seconds in you realize it's the Jurassic Park theme song. That catapults it into one of the funniest political ads/videos ever. Way to honor our troops battling those velociraptors and T-Rex's. Star Wars or Indiana Jones would have been too obvious I guess.
What's next Blago being compared to Truman or to King Leonidas of Sparta holding off the Madigan led hordes?
There is not a lack of mean spirited ego maniacs in local politics, but Oberweiss seems to exist in a category all his own.
As for Triple J Jackson for Senate that would be an interesting way to give the GOP a potential Senate pickup in 2012. He got electeth because of his father's name and he shall be held backeth because of his father's name. I'm not sure he could win statewide.