do know that if chris and alan began shilling shamelessly for one candidate and attacking the other’s supporters with the viciousness demonstrated on this page over the past year of the obama-clinton campaign, i’ll be for whoever they’re against.

You can blame politicians but I blame lazy ass citizens – we get the government we deserve

TBone – I hear you. Keep up the good fight. I am now firmly convinced that anyone who thinks one party is inherently better than the other has become delusional.

There are wonderful people involved in both parties, but as a whole, especially in New York State, I find the parties themselves and the deal they have made with each other to be nothing less than a betrayal of the people.

Folks may go in to politics with the best of intentions, but the machine into which they enter grinds them down into a piece of the machine or just spits them back out.

/end serious comments, back to sarcastic one-liners

As for the government, who makes up the government? Well in the case of Erie County about 3000 employees do. The same is true with the other levels of government, elected officials make up a very small part of government.

I should however fault myself in one point… I did exaggerate a bit when I said politicians are bad, what I should have said is that many are bad, there are some good ones too, again both Democrat and Republican.

You worked for Joel Giambra, wow! What a crusader for the public good you are…I worked and am currently working on a political campaign, but none of the candidates I work for were voted the ‘worst politician in Buffalo’

Your suggestion that I have a problem with the American constitutional democracy because I realize that politicians of both parties abuse their power, share in the blame for today’s problems and use the same rhetoric is simply asinine. Judging from your previous comment I am sure you have problems with politicians like George Bush and Tom Reynolds does that mean you too have a problem with the American constitutional democracy?

As far as your challenge for my solution and my commitment? I have and do work to support people I feel can make a positive change- Republicans and Democrats. I worked for the Federal Government helping America’s poorest citizens, I have worked to build affordable housing in our community, I worked in the social services dept of our County government. Politically I invested my time on more than a few political campaigns, most notably Joel Giambra’s who I felt would be an agent for positive change- I admit I was incorrect, but I did try.

If you want to criticize me personally for calling you out as someone blinded by your partisan feelings I hope you are able to look inside and say that you have done your share. You probably more than anything helped prove my point, there are few things more typical of a partisan hack then an attack on something that they have no knowledge of in an attempt to deflect attention from the shortcomings of their position.

Tbone, what is your solution? Build a cabin and live by yourself in the woods?

The politicians we have are the politicians we elect. If you have a problem with them, you have a problem with the American people and the American constitutional democracy.

Have you worked to affect change besides posting comments about how “both sides” are the problem. I am a pretty pessimistic person in general, but you take the cake!