Kudos to Miss Griffith, who once again has licensed herself as our moral compass concerning our fickle voting habits. For we are college students who care only for nine dollar Natural Light beeramids at Wal-Mart.
Of course we know how to gauge the successes and failures of our candidates, Miss Griffith. We've even done our research, you see ' because let's be honest, who wants to elect some psycho with his finger on the button? Heck, even at this university we're well versed in electoral processes. We've got a whole useless body of people who live, eat and breathe voting for and against things, impeaching their own members and enjoying the pleasure of Will Klatt's company every two weeks or so. But if we're not all categorically revolutionary spirits, we at least know how the system works. One goes in the booth, pulls the lever or dimples the Chad and walks out.
After all, that's why we're here, isn't it? To get an education ' and if we can learn in the time we're here how to manipulate a voting machine then we're that much better. We're not simpletons; we know our candidates and some of us are probably even registered to vote ' that's great!
But Miss Griffith spends other time deriding Hillary's tactics ' the win-at-all-costs notion, and just how inherently bad of Hillary it is to do these things. Now this just sounds silly, doesn't it? Why should we not admire Hillary? She's had 35 years of experience doing ' something. There was HillaryCare, and the pantsuits, and the White House Christmas (which, HGTV tells me, is a full-time commitment). Not to mention being named after the guy that climbed Mount Everest ' this probably isn't true, but let's run with it.
Maybe running for president is her own little Everest. Surely, Hillary and Obama want the same thing and are climbing the same presidential mountain. But Miss Griffith's outrage at the fact that Hillary is willing to kick Obama down the slope is myopic at best, and immature at worst.
After all, it is the point in the season at which the stones are thrown. Politely, Barack Obama seems to have taken the high road on this front, and so Hillary comes off not unlike Montgomery Burns.
But such is life. Stones are thrown, even if they don't always break bones. Words hurt. The mature person transcends outrage and instead seeks logical alternatives. Hillary has experience doing ' something, but she knows precisely what to say, though it does backfire, increasingly often. In this way, she is politically astute. Her cutthroat methodology knows no bounds, and though it pains every conservative impulse in my body to say so, I admire that attitude. I think we could use another evil genius in the White House; it would make the government look like they were doing something.
But if quarrelling Democrats aren't your flavor of the week, you might pop over to Castle Dracula for the Republican Convention. We have cookies.
' Chris Creamer is a senior history major.
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