----- Original Message -----
  From: "Tony Smith"
  To: "'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'"
  Subject: RE: [OT] Physics denies official 9/11 report.
  Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 01:08:08 +1100


  > What amazes me, and this is not meant to be a snide comment at
  all....
  > is that people expect the government (any government) to be open
  > and honest (caveat: I live in Canada, not the US, but politics is
  > fundamentally the same here).
  >
  > Why are people surprised that the real facts are different to
  > what was presented as fact before? The whole campaigning,
  > electing, lobbying, and other political processes are
  > predominantly based on at the best times compromise, and at the
  > worst times manipulation. The conduct required from a political
  > candidate to get elected is the exact conduct that we don't want
  > in elected politicians ... yet, it should come as no surprise
  > that once elected, politicians don't change.
  >
  > In other words, political campaigns are based on spite,
  > defamatory conduct, manipulation of information, lying,
  > deception, making impossible promises, and general arrogance.
  > Yet, we expect politicians to become honest, principled, and
  > "open" once they are elected.

  Question: How are Canadian political campaigns run?

  Much is made of the fact that US campaigns are overwhelmingly
  negative, and
  usually against the person. In other words, the message isn't "Vote
  for me,
  I'm a top bloke", it's "Vote for me because he's an arsehole".

  Australian campaigns tend to be negative too, but more towards the
  party or
  the policy, but that's beginning to change.

  And Canada?

  Tony


  Canadian campaigns above the local level tend to be more "Vote for
  our party
  because the other parties are 'arseholes'", though the local MP/MPP
  campaigns
  can get just as dirty. Though these people live in the communities
  they run in so
  their dirty laundry is well known before hand most times. Also
  Canadians seem much
  more aware of the concepts mentioned. That all politicians are liars
  who only got
  where they are by selling out the people. The public keeps them under
  constant
  scrutiny and criticizes everything they do. The U.S. seems to have
  lost sight of this
  reality, with people backing particular parties or politicians who
  they think are good
  or even "God chosen". Strange coming from a country founded on a
  limitless distrust
  of those in political power and the fresh knowledge that absolute
  power corrupts
  absolutely.  I'm sure the founding fathers are rolling in their
  graves

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