Bob Dole Syndrome
By Jeff Benitz
Delving into politics. One thing I will not do is vote for a Presidential candidate who is a full time government employee. When Sen. Bob Dole ran for President he resigned his position in the Senate saying he can not perform his job as senator if he is running for a different office. This bespoke sincerity. We lost a good statesman. He put everything on the line.
This cache of Presidential candidates has a few who are just playing games. Here is an insight you will not hear in the conventional media or with the Sunday morning television experts: fill your treasure chests with gold like pirates and risk nothing. This is what Senator Joe Biden did and Christopher Dodd. They walked away with lots of money for their next campaign for Senate and got name notoriety. They also showed loyalty to the party and the hopeful Hillary Clinton as supporters. This will pay off later, and there was no sincerity to their campaign--- they knew they were not Presidential candidates.
But to be more sinister, that was not all. The Clintons packed the candidates for the Iowa Caucus. What is obvious to me is that Joe Biden tried to hand his delegates to Hillary Clinton which the crowd, disruptively, gave to Barack Obama, much to Biden’s dismay. He was a plant and this was orchestrated ahead of time. Boy, were the Clintons furious. Biden’s usefulness was over. He knew it and had gotten what he wanted, money in his coffers. The next day Biden and Dodd quit the race. They had served their purpose (unsuccessfully) and shown their loyalty.
As an elected official and not a career politician, I have had a glimpse of the inner workings of dark hallways. As a DSOG swimmer I have not been afraid to rock the boat to the point of capsize because the ocean doesn’t frighten me. If it sounds cynical it’s because I am astonished at the amount of sleaze that goes on in politics. I thought if you have had advantages in society you should return some of that privilege. I have found for most in politics it is about destroying other rivals and a greed for power over others. To me it is about governing fairly, despite your feelings. I stand alone in the wilderness.
It’s all about alliances and patronage.
If you’re not willing to risk anything then you are not true.
This is the longest Presidential race in our history and we have three Senators who are supposed to be performing the functions of legislative government. If they can spend two years on the campaign trail, what are they doing for our governance? McCain, Clinton, and Obama have risked nothing and shown no patriotism to their office.
I don’t mind if a capitalist hedges his bets but if you work for government you are not in private capital…. it’s called service. Service for the country, not self-service. Every one of these candidates will stay in their same position. This is the same reason I lost all respect for Joe Lieberman when he ran for Vice-President, it was a joke and he knew it, and he dropped back into to the lowly position of Senator from Connecticut, exactly where he started. No worse for the wear.
It’s all about power and money…. with the frauds.
Delving into politics. One thing I will not do is vote for a Presidential candidate who is a full time government employee. When Sen. Bob Dole ran for President he resigned his position in the Senate saying he can not perform his job as senator if he is running for a different office. This bespoke sincerity. We lost a good statesman. He put everything on the line.
This cache of Presidential candidates has a few who are just playing games. Here is an insight you will not hear in the conventional media or with the Sunday morning television experts: fill your treasure chests with gold like pirates and risk nothing. This is what Senator Joe Biden did and Christopher Dodd. They walked away with lots of money for their next campaign for Senate and got name notoriety. They also showed loyalty to the party and the hopeful Hillary Clinton as supporters. This will pay off later, and there was no sincerity to their campaign--- they knew they were not Presidential candidates.
But to be more sinister, that was not all. The Clintons packed the candidates for the Iowa Caucus. What is obvious to me is that Joe Biden tried to hand his delegates to Hillary Clinton which the crowd, disruptively, gave to Barack Obama, much to Biden’s dismay. He was a plant and this was orchestrated ahead of time. Boy, were the Clintons furious. Biden’s usefulness was over. He knew it and had gotten what he wanted, money in his coffers. The next day Biden and Dodd quit the race. They had served their purpose (unsuccessfully) and shown their loyalty.
As an elected official and not a career politician, I have had a glimpse of the inner workings of dark hallways. As a DSOG swimmer I have not been afraid to rock the boat to the point of capsize because the ocean doesn’t frighten me. If it sounds cynical it’s because I am astonished at the amount of sleaze that goes on in politics. I thought if you have had advantages in society you should return some of that privilege. I have found for most in politics it is about destroying other rivals and a greed for power over others. To me it is about governing fairly, despite your feelings. I stand alone in the wilderness.
It’s all about alliances and patronage.
If you’re not willing to risk anything then you are not true.
This is the longest Presidential race in our history and we have three Senators who are supposed to be performing the functions of legislative government. If they can spend two years on the campaign trail, what are they doing for our governance? McCain, Clinton, and Obama have risked nothing and shown no patriotism to their office.
I don’t mind if a capitalist hedges his bets but if you work for government you are not in private capital…. it’s called service. Service for the country, not self-service. Every one of these candidates will stay in their same position. This is the same reason I lost all respect for Joe Lieberman when he ran for Vice-President, it was a joke and he knew it, and he dropped back into to the lowly position of Senator from Connecticut, exactly where he started. No worse for the wear.
It’s all about power and money…. with the frauds.
