At least one winner of the night
Right now, the Cubs are loosing (PAINFULLY) to the Dodgers. And earlier, the two VP candidates battled it out on stage in the first and only debate. And while Palin proved she can be confident while delivering the same prepared comments over and over (a stark contrast to her interviews), Biden had a few "Oh Snap!" moments he dished out. Tomorrow
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I can see how your opinion of the debate was colored the way it was because you're rooting for the left to win. It's in the same vein that I thought Obama and McCain didn't really have a clear winner in their second debate, but the media seems to think Obama won. I don't think McCain was the loser at all, but I don't think he performed as well as he should have. I felt he was too tepid, frankly. Instead of saying to some guy in the crowd, "The presidency is no place for OJT, my friend" or whatever he said, she should've looked Obama dead in the eye and said, "You are not ready to be president." Point blank. Plain and simple. We can debate one over the other until we're blue in the face, but let's nail it down to something completely and totally void of personal emotion: In the same way that the left says Biden trounced Palin on experience, Obama cannot even hold a candle to John McCain's resume. He can't. He just can't.
And even LESS compassionately, let's talk black and white issues. I do not want taxes raised; the economy is floundering and it will only suppress its progress--a proven fact, if you look at it historically. I want to cling to my guns and religion and why? Because I know there's a higher power to answer to, and until then I'll be damned if I can't defend my own home. I want everyone to be able to have health care, but there's something to be said for the personal responsibility of finding a way to get it. Neither of the candidates has even come close to mentioning what a sh*thole our welfare system is, and how badly it needs to be reformed or tossed completely.
The single thing about the far left that disgusts me is the fact that they're selling--literally selling us--the idea that the government will come in and fix everything for us. They're selling us this feeling of entitlement, inducing the "hope for change" that Obama has been pushing like heroin, and many among us are eating it right up. Where's the promotion of personal responsibility? Where's the promotion of "go out and invent and innovate and be smart with your money and find a hundred ways to be successful"? Where's that coming from the left? It isn't, and it makes me crazy.
Far left and Far right wackos are one and the same to me; in both cases, they're a vision of Big Brother becoming more and more real every passing day. People criticized Bush for tapping international phone calls and keeping people in Guantanamo and all of this, but the far left is taking our freedoms in a much more insidious way: through the companies and products which our money goes toward. Let's take a step back and realize what just happened: The government OWNS most of our companies now. They'll call it what they want so it's easier for the keenest among us to swallow ("it's only a loan," or "it's only temporary, honest") but that simple fact by itself makes me nervous. Add to that the fact that a (very liberal) democrat might get into the White House and inherit these companies that the government already pretty much owns, and our Capitalist society might very well have changed for good.
It might be alarmist, but as far as I'm concerned, we're in the middle of church, and I smell smoke.
Rising above which politician we like better and looking at the big picture, what do you think of how things are going, and where they're headed?
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And since your post, the economy has been a roller coaster. Is it Nov. 4th yet? I'm kind of tired of the 24-hour merry-go-round that is this election.
Hope you're doing well!!
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