Understanding

Sometimes I just don't understand things and wish I did. Most of the time these things are political in nature so it's obviously something to do with with that slimy game. This time my lack of understanding is the excitement there appears to be about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2005/05/25/build/state/30-tester.inc">Jon Tester</a> announcing his bid for one of Montana's Senate seats. <a href="http://leftinthewest.com/?p=1097">Matt at Left in the West</a> and <a href="http://thelastbestplace.blogspot.com/2005/05/testers-in.html">Mike at Last Best Place</a> are literally having orgasms over this announcement.<br />n<br />nI wish I could see what all the excitement is about but I can't. All Tester says in his announcement is:<br />n<br />n<blockquote> "I just feel small business, family farmers, agriculture, working people have been kind of under attack for the last 15-20 years," Tester said. "I think the federal government needs to make these people a priority. The middle class has built this country, and we need to make them whole."</blockquote><br />n<br />nThat's a pretty broad generalization that doesn't make any sense to me. Definitely not something to get excited about in my opinion since I don't see how people have been under "attack." Don't get me wrong, I don't like Conrad Burns but I would like to see more definite ideas and less rhetoric from a candidate I can support. That he is a wheat farmer just doesn't do it for me.<br />n<br />nIt seems like every year I get more Jaded with the whole political process and the rhetoric that is thrown out by candidates of all political stripes. There is never anything concrete and it just sickens me after a while. I better just get used to it because election season has started again and the Slime is starting to flow. How sad.<br />n<br />n<b>Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. Aristotle</b>