| | When I was watching the two candidates on Thursday, I kept thinking to myself "how did we end up with this?". Granted, it could be a great deal worse. It's not terrible but I think we've been accustomed to choices closer to our liking. It's so hard now I think because of how personal these elections have become. We all have things that have pushed, shoved, and touched us from all these different people anymore. We end up picking someone because of their platform on one or two issues, when it really should be about how they manage, and what they get done and how and why.
I'm still pulling for McCain, whether I like it much or not. But watching him on this debate was almost painful. At times it seemed like to kinds on the playground with nobody stepping in to say anything or stop them. And why does McCain go after these topics that he does? He has other punches to throw, but he keeps bringing up the same things we've been hearing from him in all the debates. I thought that what we could see most clearly in this exchange was that Barack looks like the president on stage. We see this everywhere anymore. And what is far more ironic is that in contrast to this McCain, the veteran politician, no long appears as the wise one with experience under his belt, but rather as the man that doesn't want Barack Obama to be president. We see this in the ads too. McCain needs to stop trying to build his campaign on top of Obama's faults. True, it is important that the American people know about Obama's involvement with Ayers and the like. But he brought it up in the debate again and Barack settled it right there. It may not be the truth: I don't know and I'm not even going to try and guess. But for most of the people watching it I think they saw Barack address this question as clearly as he could, and it killed the whole discussion. Obama's answer on national tv is probably all most of will ever find out about the matter, and as McCain continues to bring it up I think he is losing credit and coming across as foolish.
And speaknig of foolish, I want to further write about this matter of McCain building his new platform on Obama's faults. We've seen the ads and the debates and such moving towards this direction and it's just foolish. He can't win this fight that way, and he certainly can't win many people over that way. He could have somebody else with credit and resources speak out on these negative Obama things, but for the home stretch here I think he needs to back to his RNConvention recipe and show us/remind us all of McCain the Hero, the soldier, the veteran, the politician, the bi-partisan. That's going to be his best shot.
I have some thoughts about Palin too but in short I just want to say that she needs to stay out of the direct spotlight. This econimc crisis is a big deal and it's going to be hard to solve; McCain is guy with the experience and history, AND he's going to be the one that would actually be deciding on these new policies. Palin needs to stop talking about the economy and focus on the state and moral issues. Step back, move the focus back to McCain the soldier.
Things are looking grim, but there's still hope.
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