The politican's mantra

[midnight rambler]

"Some of my friends are for it, and some of my friends are against it. I'm for what my friends want." --the local Sheriff when I had a private one on one conversation with him about gun control over 20 years ago

[freespirit]

does that mean he wasn't picking sides, or that he was truly indifferent?

[midnight rambler]

does that mean he wasn't picking sides, or that he was truly indifferent?

What he meant was he intended to do whatever it takes to play the political game (e.g. get re-elected). He was a Democrat in a very heavy Democrat county, however he struck me as more of a pragmatic conservative (in that I got the impression he was not in favor of gun control, but he intended to appease the party machine, - he had spent years as a city police homicide detective, so he definitely comprehended the bad guy mentality).

[Hatha Sunahara]

It's the mantra of an ass-kissing suck-up. And his 'friends' are all fools if they vote for him. This could only exist in a horrifically dumbed down society. That attitude is the essence of corrupted officialdom. The result is the natural outcome of a 'democratic' society that is dumbed down so much. This is what we all learn in high school when we elect pseudo 'officials' who we think represent us, but are really tools of the de facto power that rules our lives. The process makes us think we have a say in what happens. Hah!

Better to wise up and have fewer fools running our lives.

Hatha