Politics of Hypocrisy

When a national political season in the USA gets close to the end in November the political ads become a deluge - but not in Oregon. Oregon has three main population centers: Portland, Salem and Eugene. All three are heavily liberal and thus control who gets elected both within the state and nationally. With the state firmly within the "Liberal" sphere Oregon almost never gets to see any national political ads. The Democrats don't want to spend money telling the three city "lemmings" audience since they vote for them regardless, and the Republicans do not want to spend money on closed minded "liberals" who are going to vote the Democrat ticket so they can tax the "Republicans" for things they never want to pay for themselves. So Oregon residents only hear about the ads from reports on them or via getting them off the web.

 

The ads tend to follow two main tactics: Democrat ads pick a single republican and paint the WHOLE republican party as acting just like that person; the Republicans take a specific candidate and point out what THEY specifically want to do and policies and point out what other Democrats support them.

 

This is where it gets to be ironic. Democrats ALWAYS point out that they respect each and every individual and say they promote policies to ensure that each person is treated individually - yet they paint the WHOLE Republican Party as being like the ONE person they do not like.

 

You watch 95% of the national, and even local political ads, from the any Democrat produced ad you can see the same pattern.

 

The old saying is that “actions speak louder than words” and by seeing the ad styles you can see through their action that they do not REALLY want to treat everyone equally - if you have an "R" or an "I" after your name at the polling booth (mailbox in Oregon, no polls!) you are assigned to the group of people who have no morals, beliefs, or compassion - but you do have the money they want to spend on others once they take it from you.

 

Overall the Republican ads attack the Democrat person on their record, their stated goals, and / or other Democrats that person supports and their goals.

 

That is a big difference.

 

So to those people in the other states; often called "battleground states" due to the equal division of votes of the two parties and thus not a 100% guarantee to put all their electoral college votes toward a R or D; I feel sorry for you having to TIVO through the ads or having to listen to their higher DB recorded sound level as you leave the room (done so when you do leave you can hear them through two walls). But if you do try and notice the difference between the two ad styles before you cast your vote.

 

Do you paint a whole party as being like a single individual as a D ad does, or do you paint exactly what that individual candidate has or will do like most R ads do?

President Obama Will be Mad at the French

People have complained about the French over the years about many things. Overpriced wine, haughty attitudes toward non-French speaking tourists (especially in Paris), losing wars (their soldiers are great, it was their political and military leadership who were not up to par with their counterparts), but now there is another reason to complain about the French - their average worker works more hours per week than President Obama.

 

The last in depth Analysis of the Presidential calendar was done in May of 2011 - before the campaign season began this year - and he averaged 4 hours per day of work based on the calendar that month - so he only worked 20 hours a week. Now this was the low month and is an extreme example. However, looking at the current calendar his "official" time working at the White House is actually even lower. With the campaign in full swing he is spending around 60 to 70% of his weekday work week on campaign visits.

 

Factoring in that he sometimes works on a weekend he may work another 4 hours in a seven day "week".

 

Now the time he spends on Air Force 1 is un-trackable - he could be working on real Presidential work while flying somewhere - but with the campaign in full swing he is more likely refining his campaign speech and getting advice on the campaign and not really doing any work at all. There are other times after he has thrown in a 15 minute visit or dedication at some venue (so as to not have to pay for the trip in-between campaign stops) that he may be actually working on Air Force 1 on Presidential items - but again we will never know that till some 50 to 75 years from now.

 

Taking into account of all this the current White House calendar shows him working on USA business just some 28 to 30 hours a week.

 

French workers work 35 hours a week.

 

This means that the average French worker works harder than the President of the United States.

 

This is totally unfair to the President.

 

He will demand, if he is elected again, that the French lower their maximum workings hours to 28 per week so that he can truthfully state that he works harder than the average French person.

 

After all, we do not want another item on the list of complaints that people have against France.