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Originally Posted by Robbie
Don't hold your breath. Neither Romney or any other politician will EVER do it.
Obama and Romney have a team of handlers who write everything they say and do and carefully test it out with polling before it's ever put out there.
Hell, the only guy who shot from the hip was Ron Paul. And the media immediately painted him to be "crazy".
So if I were Obama or Romney I'd probably do what they do...and just follow my team of handlers and advisers and stick to the safe script.
But it sure would be nice wouldn't it to hear some truth for once.
I still think when Clinton was in office he should have just told everyone: "Hell yes! I love women! Now what the fuck does that have to do with my policies? NOTHING. So stop talking about stupid shit" lol
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There is a show on HBO called Veep. It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the Vice President of the United States. It is a comedy and at times seems a little absurd, but parts of it are very real.
For example, a poll shows that people would like her better if she had a dog so she decides to get one. She tells everyone she is going to let her daughter pick out what they get. Meanwhile, they hold a huge discussion and do research to decide what kind of dog she is going to get. In another episode she decides to visit a local frozen yogurt shop and they hold a meeting to decide which flavor yogurt she should get.
Any high level politician is so embedded with their team of handlers that it seems like their every move is meant to gain them favor with some group or another.
What is sad is that Romney was 100% correct during the primaries when he was asked if all the bad blood and muck raking in the primaries would hurt him in the general election and he said it was all kind of like an etch a sketch and you just shake it up and start from scratch. He caught hell of that, but he was right. Nobody remembers any of that, the polls show them dead even (although the electoral college is hugely slanted in Obama's favor at this point). Romney was right and that shortsightedness and willingness to forget or be apathetic is what has gotten us nothing but garbage candidates.
I think part of the reason Perot was so popular when he ran was because he was pretty honest. He broke out his charts and said, "Look, here's the problem. Here is how we are going to fix it. It's going to suck for a while as we fix it, but it will better afterwards." People related to that.