COLUMN: 08-08-2007

The pandering going on in the various presidential debates is absolutely sickening. As each party's group of candidates have appeared in various locations in front of specific audiences, they have twisted their positions to suit the politics of the local population or the group they are appearing in front of. This was especially true in the two recent Democrat debates in front of the NAACP and the AFL-CIO. In both cases, the candidates bent over backwards in support of the most extreme positions of these groups, despite the fact that nearly all of these same candidates have always voted more in favor of lobbyist positions on legislation regarding the same issues. This electioneering hypocrisy needs to be exposed so that lobbyist money can finally be excluded from the process and the will of the American people can truly be represented in our state and federal legislatures.