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The primary season is well underway, now that the Iowa Caucuses are over. Before the caucuses there was too much in the news about them, and now after... where I've heard too much mention in the news about how the caucuses were mentioned too much.
I heard one Iowa citizen on the radio complain how sick he was of Mitt Romney, because Romney was robo-calling him 5 times a day. Yes, 5 times a day. I doubt the guy voted for Romney.
During the last primary here, I remember a bunch of Romney robo-calls. They sure turned me off too. While politicians are not required to follow the fedral "Do Not Call List", they should as a common courtesy. Can you think of anyone who would sign up for that list and NOT wish it included politicians as well?
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8 comments:
I'm waiting for a presidential candidate to say to the public: "Even if you vote me into office, I'll be severely limited in what I'll be able to do. Regardless of what I think would be best for the country, there is a whole Congress to deal with, each member with ideas of his or her own, each with a constituency bringing forward sometimes inconsistent and contradictory desires. There are also budgets and crises and precedents, all of them limiting what I'll be able to do as president. Get real, people! A candidate can promise anything, but what you'll get is anyone's guess."
Would anyone vote for that candidate?
But where's the chicken in every pot???
Seriously, what you describe sounds a little like what I know of the Warren Beatty movie "Bullworth"
More crystals for every pylon!
There isn't a perfect candidate running, and there never will be, but they have to better than the dictator we have in office right now.
I'm with you... no robo calls please!
And I am on the no call list.
I'm not sure why, but so far I have had good luck staying of the robo-call lists!
Maybe I will write in one of those funky robots for my choice :)
I. Hate. Robo-calls.
I hate the sleazy ones with the nasty, gossipy little voices. I hate the cheery ones that want to tell me how terrific they are. I even hate ones from charities that I might normally support.
I just don't buy the argument that the Do Not Call List had to exempt politicians and non-profits on the (spurious) grounds of not wishing to violate the First Amendment. My telephone is not a public space. It is absolutely private space, for which I pay. I should be able to control its use by callers.
OK, I feel better. I'll just go off home now, shall I?
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