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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (133976)	3/28/2001 8:00:33 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I have to say, I'm not a big fan of George Will. In this piece, he showed the best (worst?) journalistic device; proof by smirking. Political influence can obviously be purchased, else why are the millions being funneled? Are these unions and corporations stupid? Do they give the money because of their big philothropic hearts? No, obviously they give the money with a purpose. What can that purpose be other than to buy influence? Ole Georgy then says that that is ok, because the givers are representatives. "People affected by government". Well, these people have a huge amount of money to represent their self interests, which in many cases are not the majority interests of the people. They are the interests of the select few who have the money. THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF CORRUPTION. Ah, but George approves, because it is "free economy corruption". Slap a "free economy" label on it, and ole Georgy is for anything. In today's media crazy world, it is unreasonable to mount an campaign reform bill with some strong backing? Does the fact that the backing comes from liberals bother Georgy so much? Does "backing from liberals" automatically equal "something fishy"? Obviously in Georgy's book, it does. Notice that Georgy never makes an argument as to whether this money does in fact corrupt politicians, and make them slaves to the lobbiest. Why? Because he knows it does, but believes that's ok because that's the way things work. By not attacking the root ethics of the dilemma, Will shows himself to be as ethically deplorable as the Democrats he often attacks.