Apr 22 2009
Obama Still Campaigning
So, just for fun, I decided I wanted to vote on the Change.org top ten issues poll when they had it up. In order to do that, you have to register for the site. I now get several e-mails a week from Change.org.
Most of them are asking me to sign some stupid online petition for Obama’s plans. Now why is this ridiculous?
First of all, I don’t really agree with the President, or his petitions. Why would I sign them?
Second of all, do they really do anything? Obama is already President. He already said that he wanted to double food aid to the world’s poorest people. If the President wants to do it, and his party controls both houses of the legislature, why does he need me to sign an online petition for it? Does what I think really matter?
Now, before people start to say that more politicians should be like this and care what their constituents think, let me ask a question. There was no “I don’t support the President’s proposal” option. It was not a poll, it was a petition. This is not the way to gauge the support his plan has.
Moreover, is the President really going to tell everyone “Because I did not get enough clicks on my anonymous mass e-mail, I am no longer in favor of that proposal?” No, he’s not. This is not a way to involve the public or hear their voices or opinions. This is a campaign website which has outlived the campaign season (hopefully not on government money) but still acts like Obama is campaigning. For his high school’s chapter of Amnesty International president. Isn’t it time you quit trying to be elected America’s Prom King? You charmed everyone and won that title already. People create petitions to get you to hear them. You don’t create petitions to get them to look at you.
