because they can curve around anything they want to avoid.
Well I don't have cable TV so I missed the debates tonight. I went over to Cnn.com and looked at the transcripts of some of the questions on there, of what they had posted so far.
Has anyone noticed at all, how politicians avoid questions they dont want to answer? I mean I guess this is a natural thing that we all encounter when we are asked something. We start off on that subject...then switch to something close to that subject...then switch to something that is close to what we just switched to...and before you know it...you are talking about yourself and bringing yourself up again.
Bush was asked if he thought that a Kerry win would increase a terror risk. He started off by saying no it wouldnt...because Bush himself is going to be elected....and then he went on about the war on terror, and wrapped up his answer with a wording on the war on terror. To me...his entire answer had nothing to do with the question.
Later on, he was asked about who is a top target, Bin Laden or Hussein. Bush started off by saying we could do both...and then ended his answer by talking about the elections in January. How the heck do you go from the question of "who is the top target" to talking about the upcoming elections, which has nothing to do with the top target?
Im not saying that Kerry didnt do this either....he started his answer where Bush left off...so in essense, he didnt even get close to answering the original question. His answer ended with talk about the current beheadings.
I dont know about you, but one strong characteristic that i look for, is the way that they answer the questions presented to them. Do they dodge the thing...and try to BS their way around it...or do they stick with it and answer as best as they can. As a teacher, if a student comes up to me and asks me something that I dont know the answer to...I will tell them that I just dont know. I don't start off, and then end up somewhere else. I mean Kids are pretty perceptive...they come up to their teachers with a question in mind...and they dont leave until their question is answered (or unless they just give up). I have caught myself a number of times, doing something similar...the student comes up with a question and asks it...I start to answer it...and before long...Im going off on some other thing and Im not even where I should be in regards to answering their question. But my little thing where I go off, gets them all confused and I talk for so long...that they themselves forgot what they came up to ask and they go and sit down.
Why is the same thing happening to us when we ask our current and possible future leaders a question. Why can't they just give us the answer to what we want to know?