On Politics—

“I don’t know if this sort of quiet, unsolicited honest can work in our rude, noisy politics, but it certainly is far more presidential than the dodging and fudging that you get from most candidates. It has been argued that Obama’s style is too cerebral, too elitist. That may be true. He assumes maturity in his audiences, in the press, that simply may not exist. But given the stakes in 2008, perhaps it’s time for all of us to grow up and meet the challenge of a difficult moment of our country.” – Joe Klein, Time Magazine, Nov 12, 2007

What really bothers/scares me about elections isn't the choice of candidates. Rather, it’s the people who are voting …it seems like more and more, elections end up becoming nothing more than a glorified popularity contests – candidates, desperately seeking votes from the people that they’ll do anything and say anything to satisfy the depraved hearts of the public. And what do people want? Almost all of them want their own peace and comfort, even at the expanse of seeking/choosing what is right. Conventional wisdom of doing the right thing is always hard thing seems to have disappeared in American public opinion. Well, after all, this society w/ loss of objective moral values, the only right thing is meeting the desires of individual. We all know that most Americans are addicted to TV, sold out to entertainment industry, consumed by consumerism, begging for the next jolt of visual shock treatment and stop at nothing to satisfy their selfish desires – and these are the very people who are electing our leaders and public officials…this is actually what scares me about United States…