Wednesday, January 07, 2004
Lazy political posturing...
I'm continually amazed at how politicians seem to be able to pull the wool over our eyes so many times and get away with it. Where are the statesmen of today? I'm convinced we have changed the definition of politicians...from representative to constant whiner. The most recent example is a story in the Post and Courier about the homicide rate in 2003. It's a well-defined story...the basis of which is that half of the 57-homicides were black men killed by other black men. You'd think that would be an issue that our politicians would want to "fix"...right? Well, once again, you'd be wrong.
3 Councilmen recently held a press conference to decry the use of "son of a bitch" by the police chief. The context of which was the following:
"I refuse to take responsibility every time one black son of a bitch kills another," he said. "I have no control over that. There are social factors much more powerful than anything we can concoct in the Charleston Police Department."
It's sheer laziness if you ask me...the politicians like to sit at their comfy desks, focus on the "real problems" in our country, but never want to actually get their hands dirty. Distract attention away from the hard work of solving the problem. It's sad.
By the way, my 8-month old daughter crawled for the first time today. I'm going to have a good day despite frustration I feel.
I'm continually amazed at how politicians seem to be able to pull the wool over our eyes so many times and get away with it. Where are the statesmen of today? I'm convinced we have changed the definition of politicians...from representative to constant whiner. The most recent example is a story in the Post and Courier about the homicide rate in 2003. It's a well-defined story...the basis of which is that half of the 57-homicides were black men killed by other black men. You'd think that would be an issue that our politicians would want to "fix"...right? Well, once again, you'd be wrong.
3 Councilmen recently held a press conference to decry the use of "son of a bitch" by the police chief. The context of which was the following:
"I refuse to take responsibility every time one black son of a bitch kills another," he said. "I have no control over that. There are social factors much more powerful than anything we can concoct in the Charleston Police Department."
It's sheer laziness if you ask me...the politicians like to sit at their comfy desks, focus on the "real problems" in our country, but never want to actually get their hands dirty. Distract attention away from the hard work of solving the problem. It's sad.
By the way, my 8-month old daughter crawled for the first time today. I'm going to have a good day despite frustration I feel.
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