Frustration is a waste of time

What do you do when you're stuck in the present, but the present doesn't matter? You get frustrated. As I said earlier in an email, I think there's a lot of political frustration because any elections are still quite a ways in the future, and anything can happen between now and then.

What the politically frustrated forget is that voters only think about politics for two weeks before the election. Whatever the emergency or crisis is at the time will be the only thing on people's minds. None of what happens now will count.

For years I thought it was a forgone conclusion that 2008 would be about Iraq. IRAQ!

You'd think I'd learn.

Instead I'm frustrated.

What do you do when you're stuck in the present, but the present doesn't matter? You get frustrated. As I said earlier in an email, I think there's a lot of political frustration because any elections are still quite a ways in the future, and anything can happen between now and then.

What they forget is that voters only think about politics for two weeks before the election. Whatever the emergency or crisis is at the time will be the only thing on people's minds. None of what happens now will count.

For years I thought it was a forgone conclusion that 2008 would be about Iraq. IRAQ!

You'd think I'd learn.

Instead I'm frustrated.

posted by Eric on 07.21.09 at 06:58 PM





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I am also frustrated, but disagree with your statement. 2008 was to an extent about Iraq. It may not have registered high on the exit polls, but it was an underlying theme. What I mean by this is that the news media choose for so long to only report the bad news from Iraq. Although this had ended as the election approached, it was still part of the "change" theme. People where looking for something different and Iraq was the catalyst. Obama’s Iraq will be healthcare reform if he is not successful in getting something passed and it will be a very big part of 2012, no matter what the polls say.

Lee Isley   ·  July 21, 2009 07:23 PM

Obamacare could sink the Democrats. Which is why they may not pass it. If they don't, it wouldn't be a big campaign issue,

Plus Obama will always be able to say he tried!

Eric Scheie   ·  July 21, 2009 08:44 PM

All he has to do now is step back from it, and claim for the rest of his tenure it was the evil Rethuglicans' fault.

apotheosis   ·  July 21, 2009 08:54 PM

"...it was the evil Rethuglicans' fault..."

apotheosis

Yup, with a filibuster-proof majority, they will still blame the GOP.

Sad, really...

Anonymous   ·  July 21, 2009 09:13 PM

with a filibuster-proof majority, they will still blame the GOP.

Well of course they will. After all, the filibuster (or lack thereof) would only be a question in a world where there was the assumption Republicans operated under the constraints of the law. And it's plain no such assumption is granted.

No, any noble, bipartisan, civic-minded, democrat (but I repeat myself) project which fails must clearly have been the victim of some sort of Republican treachery. It's the only conclusion that makes sense, you see.

The only other conclusion that makes sense is that We The People might have wills of our own, and the inclination to use them if you chap our ass enough. And if there's one thought the average socialist can't countenance, it's the idea the little people might not shut up and do as they're told by their betters.

apotheosis   ·  July 21, 2009 09:30 PM

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