Clinton Possibly Last 2 Term President?

Polititians Values becoming more alike

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Politics usually didn't concern me that much. I guess as I get older either it does, or I just have more time to pay attention to them now. In asking some friends who they will be voting for and why I have come to a conclution possibly. With the current election at hand and the political posturing going on between the Dems and the current sitting President, I've noticed that the candidates beliefs aren't that far appart. With the recent news of W's budjet including the Medicare increase and the Endowment for the Arts increase among some other things, he is tending to lean more to the left on his domestic policies. I assume to attract some Democratic voters or at least more of the Moderates. At anyrate, I am hearing people say that they are unhappy with the Pres. but don't like who they have to choose from. Most just say that they are undecided. My point being that should politicians continue to "ride the fence" on their beliefs to attract voters from "both sides", pretty soon people will be electing officials on other things like, looks, speaking abilities, family name, history of being in politics,(not nessessarily meaning voting records, but just expierence), instead of their core beliefs. Should this take place, we'll be changing Presidents evey 4 years, going by the current style, and their ability to attract the biggest voting groups. Lord forbid if we were to become informed and go on their records in office, assuming they have spent time in a particular office of some sort. This could make President Clinton the last 2 term President. Just a thought, I'll opine on another aspect to this later. As for now my travel trailer is calling me to go to the lake for the weekend and contimplate some more, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
As I'm buried under what is quickly closing in on two and a half feet of snow, and all of Michigan's eleven thousand lakes are rather more like skating rinks at the moment, I'll deign to offer a bit of rhetoric at this time.

Oh, and a disclaimer: I like Bush.

That said, I think you may be right. It seems to me at the moment that Bush may very well be commiting the same long, slow political slitting of his wrists that we just recently saw from Howard Dean. To be honest, Bush had this election wrapped up, and while I still believe that he could win convincingly (his amazing amount of campaign money he already has is one of those reasons). However, there is the outside chance that he may lose the support of many conseravatives (unlikely, as the majority of the Dems do disagree with the staunch Reps on a few major issues: mainly Gun Control, Abortion and Taxes) and thus lose the election.

So, while I believe that you could be right, there are a number of contingincies that could shred your plan to pieces, the most significant of which is the so called "Sleeping Giant." In other words, if one party or the other can convince the Hispanic voters in large numbers, concievably on a scale that we've never seen before, and that party could continue to capitalize off that success of a single candidate, then we could view a paradigm shift in Politics. While something that large is unlikely to happen all at once, it would lead us into the reign of a single party, at least for a while. The second point is something very simple: the quality of Presidential Candidates is decreasing. While the men who are leading our country these days are intelligent, you have to ask yourself how intelligent is someone who spends insane amounts of money chasing a job that requires long hours, large amounts of travel, no training, constant public scrutiny, considerable danger of having your life ended and major decisions to be made?