Senator Lindsey Graham was on Meet the Press today and made excellent points about the war. He was saying everything I believe in. I have not seen anyone talk so rational, emotional, and elequently about the subject. By the way Jim Webb sounded like an idiot. He kept using polling data on why we should leave. POLLING DATA!
Update - Getting some MSM press. Headline says tempers flare. Graham was calm the whole time.
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You mean the type of polling data that tells you what your constituents, the people you REPRESENT, want? Crazy concept, this democracy!
First of all polling data is easy to manipulate. Always depends on how the question is asked and who was asked.
Second (and most importantly)- I do not want a President to make decisions about a war based on public opinion. The public does not have all the information the President has.
"I do not want a President to make decisions about a war based on public opinion."
Can we infer then that you would rather live under a dictatorship rather than a democracy?
If a president does not follow the wishes of the people he represents, it is not a democracy... but you know that.
I am sure sophist will come on now and slam me in some way or form probably by giving some hypothetical situation that shows where having a president follow his gut rather than the peoples will is a good thing, but I would still rather have a president who does what the people want.
Fire away.
If a president just did what the people (polls) wanted. Then we do not need a president. We can have a monkey in there, all he has to do is read the polls and do what they say.
Give me a break.
***smart ass comment of the day***
A monkey would at least do less damage than Bush!!
Diatribe: "First of all polling data is easy to manipulate. Always depends on how the question is asked and who was asked."
Diatribe: "A new poll shows a majority of people believe college professors being biased is a serious problem. Will anything be done about it? At public institutions I think there is an argument to be made."
Heh.
But anyway, yes, governors should not govern solely based on poling data, although when they continue to do something that's hugely unpopular, they should certainly be able to explain their actions, and we can still judge them on how well they do this.
Nuclear - I saw that smart ass coming a mile away.
Darwin - I agree they should explain their actions. And feel free to judge.
diatribe- you know me too well.
Presidents should be free to make decisions based on what they think is best. The people should be free to hold the president accountable to those decisions. This country affords both freedoms through elections. Its why our country is the best in the world. The tyrant can't rule but neither can the mob.
I have no problem playing the discount all polls game. I suspect that mostly favors my positions. However, I'm qutie skeptical of public opinon polls on the war. It's one matter to express concern on the phone with a pollster than to manifest that concern in a policy change leading to a retreat from a winning war.
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