A True Politician

Well as many of you know, today was the inauguration of our new president.  I didn’t have any class this morning so I took the time to watch the oath and the speech of Obama.  Now I really don’t enjoy any politics and am not up to date on any of them in anyway.  I really watched just so that 50 years from now when I am old and all wrinkly I can tell the youngsters in my old man voice, “I remember when the first black president was inaugurated.  I was sitting in my dorm room.”  Now that is an epic tale.  Now I considered that plenty of reason to watch the whole speech even though I couldn’t help but think the whole time, there is so much talk and yet nothing is really being said.  Little did I know that coming out of my afternoon class I was asked to be interviewed by the local news regarding todays events.  I was asked multiple questions regarding real issues and policies, which I had no idea even existed in reality.  But like a good politician, I gave full answers spattered with intelligent words, however, due to my lack of any knowledge of the subject, I did all of that without actually saying anything at all.  Ah politics at work.  The key ingredient to my fulfilling the role of a politician today was however my role as a hypocrite of condemning someone for the very action I was guilty of hours later.