Michael1942's Blog

The policians and aspirants are all espousing what they will do once in office. Let us take a look at the process of running for office and those aspiring to office. First there are the get aquainted sound bites and appearances, after that there the multiple public meetings appearances and fund raisers. All the while the message about what they will do is mixed and often garbled. Why do they not really listen to what the voters want (not just the vocally loud ones), then make a learned evaluation about what they want to do. It is plain that there can be no definitive message as to what each candidate will do when in office because they have no idea what is going on inside now and will n ot have until they are physically in the chair of power. Any encumbents who are running are in the loop but some times the loop gets a bit stretched and distorted. It is clear that aspirants cannot offer anything more than opinion as to what they will do as they do not have the necessary information to offer a reasonable statement on what they will do when in office. My opinion is that anyone running for office needs only to ask what the people expect of them (and not a small sampling), for instance I expect a candidate to be honest and above board within reason (no one is a saint and perfection is an illusion). I expect a candiate (if elected) to reach out to the hired in folks who have been running the show for years as these are the workhorses of any industry. Where would an Army be without ground troops? Where would a municipality, State or Government be without the clerks and hands on workers? Simply said do not promise anything you can’t deliver and do not be afraid to fess up when you are wrong and have made a mistake.