The Nature of Politics

I don’t understand why I am caring about this issue, so please hear me out and let me explain myself before jumping on my back. But before you read the full post, please follow the link. LINK... Now, let’s begin.

What do celebrities and politicians have in common? No privacy. Now, I understand the concept that people want to know juicy details about famous people’s lives, but come on. Celebrities deserve some kind of privacy. Politicians deserve privacy but for reasons, don’t get it. Now this thing about Gov. Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account being hacked has me on both sides of the issue.

On one hand, I think that Gov. Palin should have the freedom to send out private e-mails to family and friends. If she used a government e-mail account to send out personal e-mails, people would be calling for her head. So, what does she do? She gets a yahoo account and sends them from there. I send out private e-mails through my Gmail account from work and one time it was about a job offer (which I turned down). Is what she did so different? Private pictures of her family were exposed. That, to me, is unacceptable. What if that e-mail account didn’t have anything wrong in it at all? That would be a complete and total invasion of privacy! And it is.

On the flip side, it appears that she did government business from that same account. What kind of business is still not known by me at the time of writing this, so I’ll reserve judgment, but is this a crime? Is this something that should disqualify her as a Vice President? Well, that remains to be seen, but I doubt it.

Another question we should be asking is: should we even know about this? McCain supporters would say no. Obama supporters would say yes. I don’t know who I’m voting for, but I will say that I am glad this leaked out. My reasoning for saying that is that even if we like the Governor from Alaska, we have a right to know if an elected official that could hold the second most powerful office in America is capable of doing something illegal.

With all that is at stake in a presidential election, things like this happen. On the one hand I’m glad it leaked out so that I can see what she is REALLY like. On the other hand, doesn’t she deserve any privacy at all (especially in regards to her personal family photos)?

I hope that nothing harsh comes from this and that the authorities look into this matter with the full weight of the Justice Department (and I think it is). And if anyone in Obama’s campaign is responsible for this, then he has officially lost my vote, because what was done is ILLEGAL!

Other political outrage for today:
Lindsey Lohan is getting political and then get's turned down by Obama’s campaign. A plus for Obama in my eyes. She said on her blog, “According to this Associated Press story, the church of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is hosting a kind of conference devoted to the "conversion of Gays" -- no kidding.” Where was her outrage when Sen. Obama’s pastor said disparaging things? Listen, Miss Lesbian Lohan, stop telling me how to hate someone for being a part of a political party that you’d never vote for.