politics

[alonewiththemoon]

Is there a currently active politician that you can point to and say without reservation "there is a good human being?" Local or national, doesn't matter.

I ask because I've been feeling very let down by all the meanspiritedness out there on all sides, and wishing I could vote for someone I believed in or who I at least trusted to speak honestly, even if I didn't always agree with them 100 percent. I guess I felt like that when I voted for Carol Mosely Braun way back in the late 80s for state senator in Illinois, but her later financial scandals put a damper on it (I did vote for her in the primaries out of a sense of nostalgia--but also because I thought she was making a lot of sense and I could use my vote to send a message about what a percentage of voters want out of a candidate. Or at least that's how it works in my little dream world). It would be nice to know if anybody associates anything positive with politicians anymore.

Comments

[ayun.livejournal.com]

Have you read much about Barack Obama? Not being a registered voter in IL anymore, I don't pay too much attention to politics there, but he's starting to get a national level of prominence and there aren't many people saying bad things about him besides Alan Keyes.

I tend to believe that the very act of seeking and holding political office necessarily corrupts anybody who attempts it, so a moral or honest politician is a bit of a contradiction in terms. I'm cynical enough to think that's a reasonable opinion.

[alonewiththemoon]

That's true, there is Barack Obama. All I really know about him is what came up in convention coverage (though there was a fairly indepth piece in Salon), but he does seem like a straightforward politician.

I'm cynical enough to believe that you are reasonable to be cynical.

[julishka.livejournal.com]

after watching him speak at the convention, i was ready to cast my vote for him for president. i was floored. hope he holds up to the pressures of the national spotlight over the next few years.