Sunday, June 15, 2008

Open Season on Political Advisers

If you don't want anyone to know about your sweetheart real estate deal, or be reminded of your end run around trade prohibitions with Iran, then you might not want to be a major player in current politics. Its open season on anyone who moves close to McCain or Obama. If you have anything in your past that you are not particularly proud of ( and who among us really doesn't) then my advice is don't advise. Now that does leave our current candidates in a bit of a quandry... they now have to carefully choose people that will help them carefully choose people. I say, why not just skip to the good part, toss a few names to the media...in short order they will know what each person had for breakfast three years ago, the number of times they wore different colored socks, and whether they prefer cats or dogs and why. All this attention on whose political adviser is worse does not serve the public trust. There is far too much at stake in this election for all these minor distractions. Yes choosing an adviser with a spotty past may not show good judgement, but how do we expect to get anything done if as soon as the name is given, we find some obscure thing from their past, (that NO ONE was up in arms about prior to now) and use it to brow beat them until they quit. Let's give them a break...after all Pobodys Nerfect!

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