Claire!, Please Just be an Auditor
"State Auditor Claire McCaskill will make it definite Tuesday that she's not running for re-election, and instead will take on U.S. Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo.
McCaskill has chosen her family's old feed mill in Houston, Mo. -- south of Rolla -- as the backdrop for her noon announcement. She'll be joined by her family, aides and allies say."
Claire! doesn't work at an old feed mill, she is Missouri's state auditor. John Edwards is a millionaire trial attorney. Al Gore grew up in a luxury hotel in Washington, not as a poor share cropper in Tennessee. Why can't these people just run for office based on who they really are?
I mean seriously, you think pretending to work at an old feed mill is better than really working as State Auditor? Are the people of Missouri really looking for someone who works at a feed mill to be their Senator?
Why this fetish about pretending to be working class or poor instead of a highly educated, successful, experienced professional? If people want someone who comes from the working class to run for office it would be easy to find them, there were probably plenty of people like that ACTUALLY WORKING at the feed mill while Claire! was busy announcing that she was running for the Senate.
While the feed mill thing is silly, it also reflects a fundamental insecurity and dishonesty. If candidates can't reflect who they really are to voters, maybe it is because they aren't really sure who they are. If you don't know who you are, and you aren't comfortable telling others who you are, maybe you really just don't have the maturity our nation needs from its leaders.
Timothy Burger
timothyb(at)timothyburger.com
posted by Timothyb @ 9:18 AM
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I think the simple fact is, people don't really trust "working class" Americans. Everyone knows that George Bush didn't grow up in Texas, isn't really a rancher, and that his accent is fake (at least I would hope so, but as I've come to find, people are just plain dumb). People don't want to think of our leaders as the elite, privilaged people that they are. They want to identify with them, but don't want our leaders to be their next door neighbors.
In my opinion, it's completely retarded that we vote for individuals who have to create a "character" to garner votes from the public. I'd rather vote for someone that will just honestly say "I've never done a day's work in my life, and probably never will. I've lived my life of privilage, and now I want to spend your money frivilously without knowing real concern for a tight budget or having to do without" than someone who says "I'm (from a family background, granted 3 generations ago, of) working class people, man"
How about this. You can only run for office in the state that you were BORN in. Yes, that would mean that I would have to run for office in Missouri, and so would you. But that prevents people from essentially lying to the public (well, at least a little).
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