NewsWhore
04-24-2006, 03:10 PM
In today's "AM" editorial on the second page of Diario Libre, Adriano Miguel Tejada takes a stern look at politicians. According to the commentary, "anyone can become a politician." Tejada says that the more aggressive, those who proved themselves by putting up posters that dirtied up the cities and that violated private properties, and then were up for "anything" are today appearing on those same political posters as candidates for important positions. Others, who rose through party ranks, became so accustomed to the flattery towards "leaders" and poorly executed party politics, that little can be expected of them.
Tejada, the editor, goes on to say that to become a politician no longer requires a certain level of gravitas, nor a vocation for public service. A first requirement is not have ever had any known employment, to have graduated from a poor university or not have any scruples. Tejada, the legal expert, tempers this comment by saying that "of course the parties have good people, but these can do little in the face of the screaming masses." He then asks, "what can these people take to the public offices they seek, which is to say the legislature or the municipal governments?" He answers, "nothing more than the only thing they know: the exercise of politics as the art of survival and of getting something in return, which in the current environment can be a lot." As a political scientist, Tejada sees the change in status as bringing about laws and resolutions that favor the incumbents and as a fight to the death to conserve their political space that has given them so much. The point being that this is why the political campaigns are so violent.
Tejada, the university professor, goes on to exhort the reader to vote against what is seen in this mirror of Dominican politicians. He says that one must get out and vote for a very practical reason: No matter what there is going to be government, so try and get the best government you can. He ends the editorial by saying that people should vote because the country is in the middle of an economic revolution and the country also needs a political revolution, but always by democratic means.
The political cartoon just below this editorial shows Boquechivo and his wife watching their son. Boquechivo says, "Woman, it looks like our son has a strong political vocation." The son is urinating on a passing cat!
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Tejada, the editor, goes on to say that to become a politician no longer requires a certain level of gravitas, nor a vocation for public service. A first requirement is not have ever had any known employment, to have graduated from a poor university or not have any scruples. Tejada, the legal expert, tempers this comment by saying that "of course the parties have good people, but these can do little in the face of the screaming masses." He then asks, "what can these people take to the public offices they seek, which is to say the legislature or the municipal governments?" He answers, "nothing more than the only thing they know: the exercise of politics as the art of survival and of getting something in return, which in the current environment can be a lot." As a political scientist, Tejada sees the change in status as bringing about laws and resolutions that favor the incumbents and as a fight to the death to conserve their political space that has given them so much. The point being that this is why the political campaigns are so violent.
Tejada, the university professor, goes on to exhort the reader to vote against what is seen in this mirror of Dominican politicians. He says that one must get out and vote for a very practical reason: No matter what there is going to be government, so try and get the best government you can. He ends the editorial by saying that people should vote because the country is in the middle of an economic revolution and the country also needs a political revolution, but always by democratic means.
The political cartoon just below this editorial shows Boquechivo and his wife watching their son. Boquechivo says, "Woman, it looks like our son has a strong political vocation." The son is urinating on a passing cat!
Link To Original Article (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)