And do you know what’s sad for Senator McCain? Even if everything he said in last night’s debate were accurate I still wouldn’t vote for him. It’s not only the message, it’s the delivery. The way a candidate delivers the message says a lot about the person. John McCain comes across as cranky, arrogant, condescending and worst of all spiteful. This is not the type of leader I want running our country. And regardless of his delivery last night (or should I say intentional aggression) his message was still off.
McCain claims Obama’s trying to “spread around the wealth”. Well that’s a hell of a lot better than the extreme concentration of wealth that’s gone on recently. And I’d say a majority of this concentration of wealth has nothing to do with people’s “hard work that should be rewarded”. That’s the fallacy. McCain made a big deal about “Joe the plumber” who can’t buy his business under Obama’s tax plan. Boo, hoo Joe. Like many American’s I’m trying to find money to pay for my car right now. Why do I give one rat’s ass that you can’t buy a business? That’s your problem Joe.
McCain’s economic attack amounted to going after the fact that Obama doesn’t support trickle down or “piss on the people” economics. Good for Obama. The idea that giving rich people more “incentives” and “financial breaks” means they go out and create high paying jobs has been catagorically denounced by a mojority of economic scholars as a a fairy tale. It doesn’t happen. People sit on the money or spend it on exclusive, luxury goods for themselves. This benefits no one but a small handful of exclusive retailers and manufacturers of European sports sedans. Yay for them. McCains economic plan = Save the Yachts.
Don’t even get me started with McCain’s health plan. The only things he’s right about is the cost of health services is too high. The idea of taxing employer sponsored health plans is a joke and this is the type of arm’s reach regulation small businesses should be worried about. I am no fan of Corporatist America and that is exactly what McCain supports. More power to corporations, indemnification and buyer beware. Modern corporations are too large and legally defended for it to be them against consumers. Like it or not corporations need outside regulation and oversight. They cannot be allowed to police themselves. Their motivations are not in the consumers best interest.
Round three Obama as far as I’m concerned. The more I listened to McCain, the less likely I was to vote for him. His fate is sealed on my ballot.
I’m not a McCain supporter, but I’m not an Obama supporter either. I am still one of those “undecided voters” they talk about on the news all the time. Sometimes I just watch the debate and think “how the hell did this happen?” How did McCain come from behind and win the Republican party’s nomination? And how did Obama outwit and outsmart Hillary to get the nomination of the Democrats? It is what it is, and I really don’t like what either one of them have to say…so where does that leave me? I think there are millions of others out there who feel the exact same way. We will still be the forgotten middle class regardless of what Obama or McCain are telling us now. I will vote, but I still don’t know for who, and that really scares me. Can someone please get me a Ouiga Board??
The thing I would fall back on if I were undecided about the two primary candidates would be to look at their running mates. I have no idea how anyone would think that Palin is qualified at all to be President if anything happened to McCain. So far all of the accomplishments she’s claims as Mayor and Governor have been debunked, she’s got legal baggage and even some of the Republican party faithful despise her as McCain’s choice of running mate. While she may have rallied some of the base I actually think McCain lost the election right when he picked her.
But I also have some concerns with Biden with the foremost being his ties to credit card companies. Once again I feel like Biden is the lesser of two evils.