Buffalo Boy's Blog

I watch political coverage whether its CNN, Headline News, MSNBC or Fox News and the same crap gets covered time and time again. How candidates change and shift their positions and how this is a bad thing and the constant questioning of their shifts in opinion and plans.

How are politicians so much different from any other human being on the planet? Anyone else who starts a project and gets into it and realizes they need to change what they are doing in order to finish their task and succeed would stop, shift their point of view and change their plan.

The only person in the world who doesn't do this is George W. Bush who starts something and has to finish it the way he started it (see the Iraq war as an example). The Bush administration started a crappy agenda and is finishing with flying colors with an even crappier one.

So this morning Im watching political coverage on the NBC Today Show and they are talking about McCain's and Obama's shifting views as bad that they are not allowed to shift their points of view on issues.

These politicians are expected to provide answers on the spot, no one realizes how much work it is for them to be out there campaigning, doing their respective jobs as senators and researching the issues so that they can be as informed as possible.

In a position like the presidency of the United States, why should our president not be willing to shift his point of view on issues based on the data that he gets? George Bush refused to do this during his term and we all want him out of office. Id rather have a guy who is willing change what he is doing, think on the fly and come up with a new plan of attack when somehing isn't working.

We live in a world that is constantly changing and we need to be able to adapt with those changes or risk failure. For our next president, failure is not an option. 8 years of failure can not be followed by another 4-8 years of the same thing. That is why Im voting for the one most likely to change and adapt to what is being thrown at him. Through the Clinton campaign, Obama was able to do that effectively and he will no doubt defend and change as needed his policies against John McCain.