I cannot believe that this country is in the critical condition that it's in, and these are the politicians we're asked to choose from as our next leader. Neither McCain nor Obama spoke with any credibility or seriousness about our situation. When asked what sacrifices they would ask the American people to make in light of the crisis and its likely fallout, they punted. It made me so angry! I have no use for either of those pandering mannequins.
McCain is the conservative in the race, though, and he gave no reason at all to give conservative ideas a hearing. He was at times not quite coherent, while Obama came across as smooth, warm and reassuring (even when he was talking shite). Obama won this dull, worthless "debate," for what that's worth, and he's going to win the election. Nothing McCain did tonight changed a thing. He's done. This race is now the 2008 version of Clinton vs. Dole. And you know how well that turned out for the Republicans.
The silver lining: Obama and the Democrats are going to own this godawful mess. And the conservative movement can clear the deadwood out of the way, and start to rebuild itself into a credible force.
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John,
Will you run for president? You've got my vote!
i just can't stomach voting for a lesser of two really lame evils
Or the "evil of two lessers", as the Philadelphia Inquirer termed it when Wilson Goode and Frank Rizzo were running against each other for mayor in 1987.
What would happen if everyone who feels "blah" (or worse) about both McCain and Obama voted for someone they can stand behind?
I sympathize, but the problem is that it would be next to impossible to get everyone who feels "blah" to unite behind the same someone. Besides, partisanship is bad enough as it is; just imagine how ineffectual an administration would be if the president belonged to neither major party, and therefore no one in Congress felt any political obligation to try to work with him.
Perhaps McCain will lose so much ground after last night that he'll decide to go for broke in the next debate and take some risks. This might not win him the election (it seems that the time for that has passed, unless Obama kills someone), but it might earn him back some respect. And it would be far more interesting to see.
I'm worried and scared like everyone else, but that said, I do still have faith that we, as Americans, can weather through the (probable?) depression that's coming. My biggest fear stems from the link between a strong economy and good national security...
This is interesting
Here us how wierd the situation is. I'm either going to write in Ron Paul, who I supported from the begining, or vote for either Barr or Obama. McCain and his fundie crowd (not real christians in my book) is not an option.
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