12-18-2011, 01:38 AM
(12-18-2011, 01:25 AM)username Wrote: What we need is campaign finance reform (big time). Screw special interest groups, lobbyists...etc. They're the real force behind politics. Unfortunately.
That is true. I don't even know if it can be fixed. I think Ron Paul doesn't put up with too much bullshit because he is rich and doesn't need to pander so much. That may be the best we can do for now.
I was thinking today about how hard it is to be president. You have to know the names of every place and every person and you have to know how to behave in every situation and you have to know how the gov't works and all the laws and you have to try to make everybody not whine... It goes on and on. Gov't is hard work. You have to make it your career to do well at it. I bet they don't sleep in too often.