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Sticking to the issues
| Tue, 09-16-2008 - 7:53am |
While McCain/Palin continue their political campaign of distract and react, I would like to try to focus the attention of voters on the issues.
The economy is in deep do-do.
The political state in Iraq has made little if any progress during the time of the so-called surge. Though violence has subsided somewhat, the three sides there still are at odds and are no closer to reconciling their differences than they were before the surge. Anytime, the civic war there could heat up again. Probably after the upcoming election it will.
Health care costs continue to rise, along with the cost of everything.
We have $10-12 billion dollars to spend every month in Iraq, yet those folks have a stash of money from their oill sales. Why are they not using that money to pay for our services there?
If we can waste that money there, why can we not spend a few dollars helping the Americans who have been hurt by Hurricane Ike? Our response there seems similar to the Katrina fiasco.
These are all issues that we need to be focused on as we head into the stretch run of the presidential race.
The big question to be asked is, are you better off today than you were before George W. Bush took office? John McCain is the voice of status quo. If you like what Bush has done for our country, then vote for McCain.
On the other hand, if you want change, you must vote for Obama.
The economy is in deep do-do.
The political state in Iraq has made little if any progress during the time of the so-called surge. Though violence has subsided somewhat, the three sides there still are at odds and are no closer to reconciling their differences than they were before the surge. Anytime, the civic war there could heat up again. Probably after the upcoming election it will.
Health care costs continue to rise, along with the cost of everything.
We have $10-12 billion dollars to spend every month in Iraq, yet those folks have a stash of money from their oill sales. Why are they not using that money to pay for our services there?
If we can waste that money there, why can we not spend a few dollars helping the Americans who have been hurt by Hurricane Ike? Our response there seems similar to the Katrina fiasco.
These are all issues that we need to be focused on as we head into the stretch run of the presidential race.
The big question to be asked is, are you better off today than you were before George W. Bush took office? John McCain is the voice of status quo. If you like what Bush has done for our country, then vote for McCain.
On the other hand, if you want change, you must vote for Obama.

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For the most part I agree with you. You make some excellent points. However try to explain this to the O'reilys, Hannities, or M. Salvages of this country and they will most likely laugh in
I just can't take the right wing spin anymore:
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*** While McCain/Palin continue their political campaign of distract and react, I would like to try to focus the attention of voters on the issues.
Better than a campaign of lies and distortion like Obama/Biden are running.
*** The economy is in deep do-do.
True...and Obama's solution is to spend, spend, spend.
*** The political state in Iraq has made little if any progress during the time of the so-called surge. Though violence has subsided somewhat, the three sides there still are at odds and are no closer to reconciling their differences than they were before the surge.
Sure, if you call meeting 15 of the 18 benchmarks, increased stability and turning over the largest province in Iraq to the Iraqis "nothing." LOL!
*** Anytime, the civic war there could heat up again. Probably after the upcoming election it will.
Fear mongering based on baseless speculation.
*** Health care costs continue to rise, along with the cost of everything.
True, healthcare needs to be revamped, but not turned into the socialist program Obama proposes.
*** We have $10-12 billion dollars to spend every month in Iraq, yet those folks have a stash of money from their oill sales. Why are they not using that money to pay for our services there?
Instead of speculating, why don't you investigate the facts of the issue?...Oh, because then you might not be able complain about it.
*** If we can waste that money there, why can we not spend a few dollars helping the Americans who have been hurt by Hurricane Ike? Our response there seems similar to the Katrina fiasco.
Again, at least a few facts peppered in with the propaganda would be helpful.
*** These are all issues that we need to be focused on as we head into the stretch run of the presidential race. The big question to be asked is, are you better off today than you were before George W. Bush took office?
How is that relevant? Bush isn't running for President?
*** John McCain is the voice of status quo.
McCain has a record of change and reform. Obama...no record to speak of.
*** On the other hand, if you want change, you must vote for Obama.
Barry has voted with Bush nearly 50% of the time and has supported Bush on FISA and says he'll now keep the "Bush Tax Cuts." Obama has also been behind McCain on the curve in every issue, usually running fast to agree with McCain three days late. Obama is just another old school tax and spend Democrat...the most liberal Democrat in Congress. Change? LOL!!!
IMHO, it is erroneous to attribute less-than-admiration of Palin to hate. There is no reason to give a candidate carte blanche to dodge hard questions about experience and the gap between "preach" (abstinence-only sex-ed, family values, abolish pork barrel spending, etc) and "practice" (pregnant unmarried teenage daughter, an infant with special needs who clearly is NOT the main focus for either his mother or father, and Palin's hiring of a consultant specifically to get access to earmarked funds). Palin is a public figure and as such, both she and her supporters should expect to be looked at and questioned very closely.
And regarding the issue of Palin's experience, David Brooks, a well known moderate Republican, wrote:
"It turns out that governance, the creation and execution of policy, is hard. It requires acquired skills. Most of all, it requires prudence.
What is prudence? It is the ability to grasp the unique pattern of a specific situation. It is the ability to absorb the vast flow of information and still discern the essential current of events — the things that go together and the things that will never go together. It is the ability to engage in complex deliberations and feel which arguments have the most weight.
How is prudence acquired? Through experience. The prudent leader possesses a repertoire of events, through personal involvement or the study of history, and can apply those models to current circumstances to judge what is important and what is not, who can be persuaded and who can’t, what has worked and what hasn’t.
Experienced leaders can certainly blunder if their minds have rigidified (see: Rumsfeld, Donald), but the records of leaders without long experience and prudence is not good. As George Will pointed out, the founders used the word “experience” 91 times in the Federalist Papers. Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders. It is average people with the wisdom to select the best prepared.
Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/opinion/16brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.
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*** I'll admit, I don't know what Obama stands for. I will give him credit.
Why would you give "credit" to a guy before you know "what he stands for?"
*** His father was a communist who abandoned his family. His mother was a hippie nut case and his grandfather was a nut. His grandmother seems to be the only one in his family who was grounded in reality. I'm afraid of Obama.
I'm not sure about the "nuts"...but yes, Obama's extreme socialist positions do strike fear in those not sucked into the adoring crowd.
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