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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] They are. They're enforceable every four years. Ask Bush Sr. [/ QUOTE ] This is the correct answer. Anyone who doesn't take campaign rhetoric with a gigantic grain of salt is a fool. Even those things that a candidate genuinely believes and genuinely wants to do, some are simply out of their control and some the facts and circumstances change. [/ QUOTE ] Sounds like an awesome system you've got cooking there. [/ QUOTE ] Are you proposing something where a candidate can't take into account changing circumstances or one where president's are given more power so that they can fulfill their promises? [/ QUOTE ] Or, the ever popular third option: less promises. When I promise someone I will do something, I dont sit around and fret about how I've just limited myself to take future information into account or how I will need to usurp greater power (maybe pray or roll around in radioactive sludge?) in order to follow through. I simply make promises I know I can keep. Sometimes its even difficult to keep them. There might even be more than 3 options, my imagination isnt that great, but there are certainly more than the dichotomous choice you've laid out here. |
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What are campaign promises have been made in speech this year? During all the debates I have watched nothing has been promise, just a lot of politicians saying they will do their best to accomplish X or Y.
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Reminds me of an old debate about auditing the government according to their own regulations.
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] They are. They're enforceable every four years. Ask Bush Sr. [/ QUOTE ] This is the correct answer. Anyone who doesn't take campaign rhetoric with a gigantic grain of salt is a fool. Even those things that a candidate genuinely believes and genuinely wants to do, some are simply out of their control and some the facts and circumstances change. [/ QUOTE ] Sounds like an awesome system you've got cooking there. [/ QUOTE ] Are you proposing something where a candidate can't take into account changing circumstances or one where president's are given more power so that they can fulfill their promises? [/ QUOTE ] How about something where movie stars cocaine addict frat boys and career politicians don't get the power to make life or death decisions for millions or billions of people? |
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Not in the sense that people can sue the president in court for breach of contract. Global and national circumstances change. Those changes might require a leader who genuinely wanted to do one thing to end up doing another.
However, the free press has the job to shine a light on hypocrisy. And the electorate has the job to decide if any breach of promises are sufficiently unjustifiable to warrant voting for someone else in the next election. |
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