carlsonjok
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| Quote (blipey @ Nov. 04 2008,09:17) | | The point of political action should not be winning the race (yet it so often is...flash forward 3 months when all our politicians will be focusing on reelection instead of doing their jobs), but on governance. As a society, we focus so much (exclusively?) on the race and the identity politics that we mostly forget--or are apathetic to--the real business of government. |
Well, that is why, to some extent, we are in the pickle we are in. For the last 8 years, policy and governance have been the handmaidens of politics. It was the Rovian route to a permanent Republican majority. Unfortunately, over the last four years in particular, we have learned the hard way that competent governance does matter.
Indeed, I suspect we would have an entirely different race today if McCain hadn't adopted the politics over policy line and brought alot of the Rove machine inside his campaign. By focusing mostly on attacking Obama without articulating coherent policy alternatives, McCain gave voters no vision of a better future on the other side of our current economic crisis. Obama may yet turn out to have feet of clay, but at least he gave the voters some idea that he was looking beyond the election.
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