Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows
How should we react to politicians hobnobbing with some of the same folks he or she has publicly denounced? Now I’m not necessarily coming down on President Obama who is attending a very swanky dinner to raise funds for the Democratic party – even when some of the Wall Street tycoons who have been paying themselves huge bonuses he’s publicly denounced will be there. That would be trying to paint him worse than any other politician which wouldn’t be fair. What is fair is to say that the president’s behavior does make him no different than your average politician – he is just another politician.
Fortunately I’m no idealist and I don’t put anyone on a pedestal so there is no resounding THUD as overblown, overly optimistic dreams of a super hero like leader hits the ground like a watermelon thrown off a tall building breaking into a thousand pieces and just leaving clean up for those who had hoped for so much.
And, it’s necessary affairs like these than makes you wonder how politicians make peace with themselves after catering to some of the very people they propose to be against. I’m not sure how they do it. Perhaps they argue that it’s for the greater good or that the ends justifies the means.
I certainly hope the dinner was tasty!