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[quote]Integrity should be central to what it takes to be a politician. You know, Politician Someone makes promises and then they make good on those promises, because they gave their word. People tend stop listening to and voting for politicians that make a lot of promises and then keep few or any of those promises.[/quote]
A democratic form of government implies that the candidate with the most votes obtains the office. To obtain votes, a candidate will necessarily make promises to many divergent voters and groups of voters. These groups of voters will often, by their very nature, have divergent and even contrary interests. Thus a candidate wishing to appeal to the largest amount of voters will necessarily be making promises that are their very nature self-contradictory and even at odds with each other.
Thus integrity, which you define as being able to keep a political promise, is virtually impossible for a modern democracy.
For what concerns Obama, he has yet to even keep one of the promises that he has made to obtain his office - e.g. Guantanamo, the war in Iraq, etc.
I agree with you completely of course that he should not accept the reward because there was no earning of it. Yet awards like this are exactly the sort of things needed to obtain votes....
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Thirty days hath September, April June and November.
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All the rest have thirty-one...
Thus, sadly, in a sane dating system, we could never have a 31.4
No choice but to be American for Pi day unfortunately
We still use an accounting app that is DOS only. There are lots of them out there, more than you think.
Not everyone updates software every year or business cycle. Here in Eastern Europe, it takes ages to update anything.
Just saying that there is often a reason for things.
[quote]Integrity should be central to what it takes to be a politician. You know, Politician Someone makes promises and then they make good on those promises, because they gave their word. People tend stop listening to and voting for politicians that make a lot of promises and then keep few or any of those promises.[/quote]
A democratic form of government implies that the candidate with the most votes obtains the office. To obtain votes, a candidate will necessarily make promises to many divergent voters and groups of voters. These groups of voters will often, by their very nature, have divergent and even contrary interests. Thus a candidate wishing to appeal to the largest amount of voters will necessarily be making promises that are their very nature self-contradictory and even at odds with each other.
Thus integrity, which you define as being able to keep a political promise, is virtually impossible for a modern democracy.
For what concerns Obama, he has yet to even keep one of the promises that he has made to obtain his office - e.g. Guantanamo, the war in Iraq, etc.
I agree with you completely of course that he should not accept the reward because there was no earning of it. Yet awards like this are exactly the sort of things needed to obtain votes....
If you think it takes integrity to be a politician in a modern democracy, you are in for a big disappointment.