What is missing in this run up to the elections

[raymansean]

let me start by saying I do not know who I am going to vote for yet. However, I have been paying some attention to what is going on in the news the past few months and these are my general thoughts. If you want me to vote for you tell me what your vision is for this country, what path would you like to take it down, how do you plan to meet your

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[stizzyocayce]

We have had an excellent example of what RS is talking about during the last 36 hours or so. McCain says he wants to delay the planned Friday debate so that we can all focus on a big ol' bandaid for the hemorrhaging economy. Obama, in a widely replayed sound bite, says that in times like these politicians owe it to the electorate to tell them what they are going to do and that those cut from presidential material need to demonstrate that they can do more than one thing at a time.

Has Obama told us what he would do? No. Has he demonstrated (in this event) the ability to do more than one thing at once? No. All he has done is called McCain's abilities into question and (by implication and only by implication) earned credit for doing and being able to do what he says McCain should do. He has used this moment ONLY to score points against McCain, and he has done this with a rhetorical sleight of hand that keeps us from noticing that he himself is as guilty as his target of the charges he himself brings (if not more so).

If Obama truly believes that it's so important that we hear from those who will inherit the problems in forty days or so, why did he not tell us what he will do? Why did he use his time only to attack his opponent?

At least McCain ducks out on saying anything substantial (in this instance) by saying that he's concentrating on a particular problem. Obama (in this instance) steps up to the microphones and, rather than telling us anything of substance, ducks out by concentrating on how inadequate his opponent must seem to us.

And this is the state of politics in America.

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BTW, a partial list of the campaign lies so far, from FactCheck.org to Newsweek to us: http://www.newsweek.com/id/160844