Politic Speak

Politicians know how to mince words. During the campaign, we were all bombarded by negative advertisments proclaiming the evils of the candidates approved by the running opponent. During the debates, interviews and speeches, blatant exchange of words came from left and right, criticizing, discrediting, embarrasing, to the point of maligning the other.

Now that the election is over, the winning candidates would just want to forget about what was said of them during the campaign. Those who lost would say they would work with the elected officials. When asked pointedly about what they said during the campaign, the losing party would say that those are things that they saw firsthand and are still "bothered" by them but "having said that", they would be "honored" to accept a position in the administration. The winning candidates would rather not comment and said to set aside "politics" for now and get going.

But how can you set aside politics when it is the very arena they are all in? Government is politics. And if they all said things just to win the election, then all of them are not taking politics seriously. They are just playing us all around, telling us anything just to get our votes.