Quote Originally Posted by UDP View Post
(this is not a response to DJ, just a comment in general)

aside: Now what I don't understand is why people are so surprised that governments do strange or questionable things for political reasons, when the very process of getting them elected is a bunch of "politics"
We've abstracted away from the character issue and instead made everything into a bunch of lcold wars between parties. So long as radicals have a vote though, this will remain the situation. Radicals vote with their hearts, not their head, and if someone seems uncommitted to their heart then they just won't vote for them. Obama is really good at dodging around radical sentiments, carefully toning his message so as not to enrage them. ****** now, did the opposite, toning his message specifically to enrage his audiences as much as possible.