Comments on: Holding Political Office is About Power, Not Service

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Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:21:28 +0000

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Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:47:04 +0000

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By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:20:30 +0000

If anyone had a problem commenting, looks like 2.1 does not play well with the subscribe to comments plug in so I disabled it.

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:18:23 +0000

Thanks for your comments. It will be a long and bumpy ride and folks like us can not get in on the action. I would love two terms in the Senate so I could straighten them out.

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:52:21 +0000

This is one of the reasons I had to drop out of the race for city council in 200(2?). I am disabled. If I have more than $2000 in my bank acct., I lose my medical and everything. It is set up so I cannot run for office.

In the meantime, people do not look at the issues anymore. They look to party, which would also appall our Founding Fathers, and they try to cut you down at the knees without ever looking at your ideas.

As they say, “It’s a sad, sad situation…”

By: Always On Watch

Always On Watch — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:23:25 +0000

Today’s WaPo ran a story about the funding of Hillary’s campaign. Private funds, which are not scrutinized as public funds are. Looks as if she might be buying the nomination.

You have an excellent point with the following:

The idea the founders had of citizens serving in elected office was that they would serve the country for a short period and return to their regular lives. The founders never intended for public service to become a lifetime job.

Today’s politicians have moved so far away from our Founders intentions that, were the Founders to visit an election-campaign season and post-service trends, they’d be appalled!

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Ask Andrea » Better Late Than Never, Right? — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:15:14 +0000

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