Topic: Debate
My Friends It's Only Eight Years Tonight's debate was filled with two statements we should all listen to closely. McCain continued to speak to 'my friends' while Obama clearly focused on our history being merely eight years in length.by Gary Wood
(conservative libertarian)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Both skillfully maneuvered around direct questions from the audience espousing their rhetoric, claiming the errors of the opponents and giving little substantive value to their own plans, if there are truly any plans in either camp.
Personally this debate did nothing to secure my feeling that Senator John McCain is my friend. It also did nothing to secure my belief Senator Barrack Obama has any recollection or grasp of history beyond his slanted view of what has happened in the last eight years. Neither of these two 'viable' candidates are capable of formulating clearly defined plans, at least plans they are willing to share with the people. Many questions were specific while their answers were far from specific.
Obama is incapable of telling the people there were any problems prior to the Bush Administration. As bad as the last eight years have been, and history may well write these as the worst in presidential history, he either is unaware or unwilling to learn from the failed policies of at least the past century. Bush did not start the global decline of respect for the United States. Our failed foreign policy has been supported for over a century through both Republican and Democratic administrations. Our failed economic policies have been entrenched since 1913. Our failed government partisanship approach has been a tradition since the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Yet Obama firmly expects us to join in unison in blaming all our woes on the last eight years.
McCain is steadfast in his desire to force the opinion we all are his friend. We who he abandoned as early as last week while supporting the miserable, pork laden bailout...excuse me, rescue...plan that smacks more of conspiratorial corporatocracy rather than true help for the people. His so called straight talk continued to be mired in falsehood. He continued to be so focused on trying to convince us Obama is wrong he once again failed to state any clear reason we should believe he is right. He was unable to simply point to Obama's plan for taxing corporations and tell the truth, corporate taxes are paid by the end users, not companies. His record is his foundation in which he claims he will stake the race upon and his record of inconsistency and inability will secure his loss while sending to the White House a puppet of the Democratic National Committee.
Not a single one of these debates are true debates. The Commission on Presidential Debates once again fails to invite all the candidates. These debates continue to be no more than paid advertisements for the two real powers destroying the United States. The Republican and Democratic National Committees, with the aid of their bought and paid for mass media, control our plutocracy and neither cares who wins the election so long as the people of the United States are fooled into believing they voted for the winner.
McCain and Obama don't represent leadership. McCain and Obama don't offer any real answers. McCain and Obama don't have the people's best interest at heart. They are party hacks bent on insuring our path to the final end of the great experiment of a Federalist Republic dies an unnatural death. The two party system continues to prove itself inferior in the ability to foster liberty and freedom. The two parties continue to trounce on our long forgotten constitution. The election for representatives at the federal and state level is no better than this facade of an election we are witnessing in 2008. However, we can change this by voting the way the media and these two parties don't expect. Cast a descending vote for third party candidates now. After all, we don't have to wipe out a long history of two party control since our history is really only eight years old...just ask Obama.
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