At a time when we need real leaders acting as public servants and not politicians, it's clear to me and I think all reasonable people that until corporate money is banned from US elections, until all campaigns are publicly financed, our country is lost and the notion of the US as a vibrant democracy a bad joke.
What's the difference between a leader working as a public servant, working on behalf of the People's interests and a politician?
A public servant would be looking to tamp down all rhetoric and charged emotions, assessing how and why a Jared Loughner happened and working to prevent it happening again.
A politician is looking to exploit the situation to get his own goals fulfilled, which in this situation appears to be higher office and personal wealth.
Politicians are using the events on Saturday in ways to distinguish themselves from the other candidates running for office in 2012. Instead of actually doing work within the jobs they're in to distinguish themselves. With the exception of Carolyn McCarthy, there appears to be no members of Congress working on citizens' behalf, and even McCarthy is only dealing with this from the weaponry angle, not the mental health treatment aspect.
All other politicians who have weighed in are looking to protect elected officials (and after the fact of of a shooting) or position themselves or their districts to prosper from remedies. Peter King's proposed ban on guns closer than 1000 feet from elected officials. Dan Burton's proposed legislation of building a plexiglas wall between the public gallery and the floor of the House (This isn't the first time Burton has proposed this).
Sarah Palin is a former politician who quit public office mid-term and has not announced as running for any future public office. Anyone in the media who continues to include Sarah Palin in the public discourse, to even talk about her or give coverage of anything that she says or does in her tweets or Facebook account on any subject not within her expertise that happens to be in the news on any given day where her perspective might shed light (as a failed politician and quitter of public offices, as a resident of Alaska, on parenting a Down-syndrome child and an unwed teenage mother, on French-manicured toenails, etc.), makes the media no better than she is. Media personalities are trading on sensationalism, trying to prosper personally by generating controversy.
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