Poliics

[dlgood]

I'd like to like you John, but you didn't mention a single specific thing you'd do or a specific aspect of your party's ideology that you'd change.

Not a single sacred cow touched. Could have at least mentioned Guantanamo or Torture.

That was pretty gauzy. Where's our "Maverick."

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[scwlc.livejournal.com]

I think promises are dangerous things in a presidential race. You make too many and people wonder if you can fulfill them, or they get angry if you don't while you're in office, no matter how ridiculous the promise was. He's probably trying to avoid making specific statements so that if his position on something changes later because circumstances have changed, he doesn't get attacked for flip-flopping.

I can't really blame him for caution on that.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

You can't run as a "reformer" who will "shake things up" but then tell the audience you won't do anything different than the current president on Economic Policy, Energy Policy, Social Policies, Tax Policy, or Judicial Appointments. While hiring the same campaign staff the current administration uses - many items of which you objected to back when you gained that reputation as a "Maverick".

I don't ask for a candidate to give a laundry list. But you have to have something or you start to look stale.