Politics doesn’t excite me, never did. And it’s not much different this time around. Impossible promises glibly made and, in the end, broken.
Example: John Edwards ran an advertisement in Iowa saying that if he was elected President, he would use his power by taking away the health insurance of the members of Congress and even the members of his administration if universal health care wasn’t passed by July of 2009. Yea, right. Effective rhetoric—but based on a false premise because a president has absolutely no power to rescind federal health insurance for members of Congress. So much for John Edwards.
Yet when all the dust, debris, and dung of the 2008 campaign trail clears, Ron Paul stand as a single breath of fresh O2. No, I don’t agree with everything Ron Paul says, but hey—I’ve been encouraged by his campaign because it’s been heartening to not only watch a candidate talk about limited government, humble foreign policy, and individual liberty over the last several months, but to see his support actually grow
as he does.
