I wish I could see what all the excitement is about but I can't. All Tester says in his announcement is:
"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."
That'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.
It 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.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. Aristotle
And, based on a handful of news stories, you've already sunk back into cynicism. I'd rather have some hope. I know Tester. I trust him. That's why I'm excited. He's well-respected by people I trust on both sides of the aisle.
I never said I sunk into cynicism, I was trying to say I don't see what's to get so excited about when all there is out there is rhetoric. I then explained my opinion of the whole situation comes from the fact I am Jaded by it all and that it does affect my perception. I used it as an explanation for why I felt the way I did.
Excitement, orgasmic or not, and politics/politicians are an oxymoron when used together. In my mind they don't go together. When I was young and idyllic they did, but the older I get I come to understand they don't. I'm glad other people find it exciting and hopefully you won't reach the same place I am. I never thought I would and I did. It's the way the ball bounces.
I do find the use of "orgasmic" to be interesting in light of your repeated and undefined description of Gov. Schweitzer as "The Second Coming" though. If I were more schooled in the writing of Herr Freud perhaps I could endeavor to make a connection. For now, I'll just let it go.
Mike
Excuse me if the term orgasmic offended you. After I left to go to work this morning it occurred to me that some people might not understand the humor behind my statement and take offense at it. It's the way my sense of humor works and people that know me understand but it can be misinterpreted at times and if that happened I apologize.
As for my undefined description of Gov. Schweitzer as "The Second Coming," as I have stated before , the term is used as a sarcastic response to those people out there that fall down and worship the very ground the Gov. walks on as if he were greater than the second coming of the Lord. As my comments usually suggest I have no use for him.
So many of the politicos we get at the higher levels know NOTHING about having to actually work with their hands and bodies, as they have 'little people' who do all those kinds of things for them. They don't have a CLUE about what the 'middle (read 'working') class' needs, or sees as important, or would like to see improved. This guy probably would.
Check this out:
http://www.ewg.org/farm/region.php?fips=30000
Wonder why we have so many dryland wheat farmers in Montana? Surely not because it's back breaking work.