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Some thoughts on the third and final presidential debate.

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:43:50 GMT

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.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:53:05 GMT

New header.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Mon, 19 May 2008 07:42:34 GMT

These pictures look pretty awesome. It's from a movie called Australia, that should be coming out in November.

Missing all

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:35:14 GMT

I've been quiet on this front. I'll probably continue to be for some time. But I thought I'd paste these Hemingway quotes, because I think they're beautiful.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. It has only happened to me like that once.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Keys

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:54:41 GMT

I'm pretty sure downloading the Google Earth beta after it was already 2am lastnight was a bad idea. I am in fact, going to bed very soon here tonight. But it is good. It was a mostly fine work day today. A good close tonight, and I talked to my friend Paul for awhile, and he is very encouraging. I am very thankful for friends.
I also found out a minute ago that my direct deposit finally was sent to my account tonight, and that is a very nice thing. It put me past a milestone that I haven't been back up to since buying my imac/paying off insurance and everything on the car/and other purchases that I'd made this year.
I also somewhat accidently made a very good playlist a few days ago that has all my josh ritter songs and all my bob dylan song and covers, and a few soundtrack pieces in there too. It makes for a very wonderful shuffle.
I guess that's what I got.

Doh...Psych!!

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:36:24 GMT

It's really too bad Arrested Development only had a three season run.

I've been trying to get to my Psych homework today but I've only read some of the chapter. And it accidently got dropped and now I'm not sure if I'll be able to get it back. Isn't that weird? See, being homeschooled it was like, if you went to class, and did homework, that was about all. I don't think it really mattered who or where you came from but if you were in the class and did the stuff than you passed. Which, maybe isn't a good system, but these college classes have so much more people involved with that little step of 'being in the class'.
So anyway, school could be better. I think I really just wanted to change my xanga header more than write a post, sooo...that explains why this is the abrupt end of it.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:56:43 GMT

So this will turn out to be a short post after all.
But I should add this song. Because I keep playing it.

It's from a very good movie. And I think it's all around marvelous.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:08:06 GMT

I'm pretty impressed with Hulu. I like the embeds...and full length movies.

Friday, March 28, 2008

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:02:14 GMT

I've been suspicious for the past couple weeks that my car wasn't getting the same kind of mileage I used to get. So I filled him up for another test to find out. And so far, it looks like I'm wrong. I guess gas has just gone up that much. But I'll find out for sure pretty soon.

I don't go to the beach very much. But some friends were going yesterday for the afternoon and it happened to be when I had a 4 hour morning shift (which I've never had before yesterday), and it is also probably the last long day without work that I'll have in quite awhile, with my schedule changing. So I made an effort to go and still was able to have lunch on the beach and run...and, since it was a 4:40 morning yesterday, I also unfortunately fell asleep. Luckily I had my undershirt still on, so it wasn't everything, and also not just my arms, had a had a t-shirt on.... but it's pretty sore today. So when I got out of the shower lastnight I thought it was picture worthy. It's a decent design, ya know. So I imagine work is going to be interesting today. I have to get a drug test in before then too.

That's pretty ironic, huh.

Cars

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:59:22 GMT

This is very random, but I was thinking about how much fun my little car is to drive. And how nice it is to put 9 dollars in it and still see the gas gauge go up so far.
So this is a picture of my old car, my '88 Olds, named Cici.
And also of my new guy, a '93 Metro named Flynn.
(I also changed my site header picture last week.)