(04-16-2009 10:14 AM)BGSUalum1987 Wrote:  Torch:

Excellent addition. My perspective - politiicans have been using this fact (that Americans are, at the end of the day, all about "being happy and feeling good about oneself) to fuel their own agenda. The politicians want to be in power. The public wants to be happy. So, basically, the parties are fighting each other to prove that they are the party that can make the public happy. Again, not necessarily the one that can do what's best for the country - because what's best for the country isn't always going to make the public happy.

Politicians tell the people what they think will make them happy to get elected, then do what they want to do.
When the people realize that they aren't happy, they vote the other guy in at the next election.
What concerns me is that tempers are already close to the boiling point for many, and this guy has three and a half more years of not delivering happiness before the next election.
That brings some pretty scary possibilities into the mix. There are nuts on both extremes.