Even In Politics I Guess You Get What You Pay For

President Obama won the hearts, minds, and most importantlythe votes of millions in November 2008 with promises of hope, change, transparency, a whole new type of president. He claimed to be above the political games so common to the Capitol. He even set up his website so that we could all see what is going on, even send him e-mails. I guess that's why for some it was a shock when the President's dealings with Sestak came to light.
We could write one off, but it didn't stop there. Another candidate much like Sestak came forward, and most recently Obama's name came up in the Blagojevic trial. It may not have been so shocking were it not for the fact that Obama's legal counsel denied any sort of contact with Blago concerning the scandal. I suppose in Chicago communication via messenger is common with the political fiasco that is the government of the state of Illinois and Chicago itself. Maybe it is a case of difference in the definition of "contact" or maybe it is a misunderstanding. It is even possible that Mr. Balanoff is lying, not that he has an obvious reason to. Even if the president is not at fault, do these accusations not signal that he does indeed play political games? Do they not bring his claims of transparency into question?
I suspect that the Democrats knew it was coming. Their campaign donors payed good money to get him into office. I just don't they anticipated the oil spill disaster, or the public outrage it would cause, or that eventually people would come to find Obama's eloquent speeches lacking substance. Who knows, but I hope they got what they payed for.

iPod App

I just downloaded a new app for my iPod touch, it's called "Proud Republican." In the fifteen minutes it has been on my iPod it has become my new favorite. Possibly my favorite feature is the Vs. feature that compares the number of Proud Republican users to Proud Democrar users. Apparently Republicans/Conservatives like to be better informed, as Proud Republican boasts 24,607 users to the Democrats 2,014. Anybody else think that that explains a few things?

A Bit of Background...

I am an independent. That is an important thing to know about me, if you want to understand my political opinions/views. I really do not care what party a person is from, if they are doing a good job, that's great, if they are not they should be called out on it. As far as I'm concerned, the bipartisan atmosphere in the capitol does nothing but bog things down, as the problem is there, and it is simply a matter of differing opinions as to how to solve it. These differing opinions are then driven even further apart by firm, ofttimes radical, sometimes ridiculous adherence to "party ideology" and by the end of things the debate is so intense as to fail to truly accomplish anything of note because they are unable to reconcile their differences. Instead, they create complex, expensive, inefficient bureaucracy that does little if anything to solve the real problem in the first place, and is a mediocre compromise. This is why we seem to be stuck in a never ending cycle of one poor political choice after another. Well, I guess this is my attempt to make myself feel better about it by publicly complaining.