Note: I wrote this for a more informal blog, and thus you will find that I didn’t use proper capitalization, punctuation or perhaps even spelling. I wanted to post the same ideas here, but didn’t want to go to all the trouble of changing my informal style from that blog to the more formal style of this one. Please forgive this laziness on my part for the following post!
I just got done watching the debate, and i know that you all are waiting with bated breath for my intriguing, insightful, and dead on accurate analysis of it…so here goes…
btw, that first paragraph was written tongue in cheek. you public school folks might have to look that up. just kidding, i was public schooled.
Seriously, I watched the debate and i think that we finally are getting to see some differences. I knew they existed all along, but they have finally been clearly articulated. Here are just a few of the key points that were spoken tonight, that I think are very important. You won’t find this stuff on your local news…they think Obama can really walk on water, and Joe Biden can get people walking out of wheel chairs…
1. McCain is not Bush, and will not govern like Bush. It is amazing to me that McCain’s “association” with Bush is fair game in Obama’s mind, but Obama’s “associations” with Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and Acorn are not important at all. Let’s see: Bush: president of the US, most powerful man in the world. Ayers: unrepentant terrorist, wishes he could do more bombings. Wright: Racist “pastor”, immoral political extremist. ACORN: deeply involved in illegal voter fraud, heavy democratic ties, direct contributions by the obama campaign. Even if Obama was right about the whole McCain=Bush thing, I think i’ll take that over the obama connections. if you think that it is unfair to connect obama to these nut cases, it is just as wrong to connect mccain to bush–the evidence is just as strong. if you take the mccain/bush connection away, obama has nothing to run on. so, it is not surprising that the media is bound and determined to play up the mccain/bush connections, and do all they can to shoot down the obama connections. i’m glad i’m not a friend of obama…there’s not much room left under the bus that he keeps tossing his friends under!
2. Health care. neither candidate has a particularly good plan for revamping health care, but obama’s plan is just like everything else he spoke about tonight: “I’m gonna fix this problem by taking more of your money, and spending it on health care!” Ok, that’s not a quote, but it certainly is the idea. McCain’s plan, at least the part i read and think i understand, is much better, because it will bring more choices to the market of health care. you can get coverage wherever you want to get it, and will not be forced to accept your employer’s health care offering. I wish he would drop the whole, “we’re going to tax your benefits” line, as it is a turn off to anyone who is a real conservative. Just a question to those who think the government taking over health care is a good thing (which is what obama will do): what program has the government ever taken over and succeeded with? Just recently, they took over the congressional cafeteria, and failed miserably (bad food, higher costs, running in the red). Yeah, that’s the type of people i want making my health care choices.
3. More More More government control. Obama says that Joe the plumber will not have to pay any penalty for not providing his employees with the national health care plan that he is going to insist on. what he didn’t say was that it is the government, and solely the government that dictates whether a business is a “small business” or a “medium sized business” or a “large business”. So, what that means is that Joe can buy his plumber business, and then hope to not make more than $250,000 just so mr. obama doesn’t take a higher percentage of his money. but, if he does, and decides to expand, he can start to hire a few folks into his business. now, joe in his first year might just be one of those “small businesses”, so he doesn’t have to provide the health insurance required of those greedy big business companies, like the evil oil moguls. But, what if joe accidentally crosses the line, and doesn’t realize that Big Brother now thinks he is a “big business”. Now he gets hit with a fine! Come on obama, be honest with us! that coy smile is i’m sure cute to the ladies, but it doesn’t answer the question!
4. Spend, spend, spend. This has already been mentioned, but since it was a key part of Obama’s stand in the debate, it warrants being mentioned again. His solution to the educational woes in this country are that we should spend more money on it. The very question posed to him stated that we spend more on education than any nation on earth, and yet our results fall way behind most of the other countries. A rational person would thus conclude that spending more money is not the solution! however, that was obama’s only solution. Remember, folks, it is the democrats that are in the pocket of the teachers’ unions (that is not a slam on any one that may be a teacher, or in a teacher’s union that may be reading this post), so it isn’t going to do any good to throw in more money. McCain actually has a much better plan when it comes to education. Vouchers that give parents a choice is a smart way to go, and will cause schools to improve in order to compete. wow, there’s that whole free market thing again!
5. Abortion. I know that all the libs are trying to steer us away from this one. but, as a conservative, this will be an issue in every election that i vote in. Obama, for all his talk about cutting down the number of abortions in america, has done absolutely nothing to that end. I know what you are thinking: Republicans don’t either. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. They appoint judges that are constitutionalists (and regardless of what the media tells you, the right to an abortion just isn’t in the constitution. now, in the lib constitution, its right after “separation of church and state”.) Remember President Bush stopping a nasty piece of legislation that stopped partial birth abortion? don’t tell me he didn’t do anything! Obama, on the other hand voted against a bill that would force doctors to provide medical treatment to a baby who was born following a botched abortion. he had an excuse, but it is important to note that the bill passed shortly after he left the illinois senate for the national senate. now his bad choices are made on a much larger scale!
6. Judges. McCain made it clear that he would appoint judges that were strict constitutionalists. he pointed out that he voted for judges that were presented by dem presidents, because he thought that presidential elections had consequences. if the people voted for a dem, as long as the the person was judicially qualified, McCain voted for whomever the president chose. Obama on the other hand voted only for judges that fit his ideological qualifications. Thus, he voted against Roberts, who had to be one of the most qualified men ever presented. but, roberts didn’t think Roe V. Wade was a good decision. that’s good enough for obama, he voted “no”. He said he didn’t use a “litmus test”, but the facts show otherwise. I wish McCain had asked a follow up, asking why he voted against Roberts!
7. Ayers, Wright and ACORN. I know i already tackled this, but I want to make the point that any one of these is not necessarily the problem. I don’t think obama is a domestic terrorist. I don’t think he REALLY (ok, maybe just a little bit) wants there to be voter fraud, and I would like to believe (though it is becoming more difficult) that he is not a racist. However, having so many of these types of issues makes me question his JUDGMENT! he makes really poor choices. He made poor choices about where to start his political career (and, yes, it was with william ayers, no matter how many times he tries to deny it). He made really poor choices about where he was going to attend church, sitting and listening to the racist political spew from Wright (i wonder if he ever heard the bible used?). He made really poor choices in who to give $800,000 to when choosing a community organization to “get out the vote”. What makes us think that he is suddenly going to have good judgment? If you have the judgment of obama, i have some great property for sale, and i can give you a great price on it!
Folks, I know McCain is far from perfect, and I am still not convinced i will vote for him, or for anyone for that matter. But there is a difference between him and obama. Obama will take more from us in taxes, and will continue to spend more than we can possibly pay. McCain probably won’t be a whole lot better in the long run when it comes to spending, so that’s a toss up. But, at least there is the hope that he won’t take more from me.
If you think obama really isn’t going to raise your taxes (yes, i’m talking to all you middle class folks out there too), then you are nuts! you can’t spend more money on health care, more money on education, and more money on all the other stuff he cited tonight and not raise taxes. by the way, i believe obama must be a product of our failed education system. he keeps telling us that 95% of americans will get a tax cut. That is amazing, considering only 62% of americans actually pay taxes. must be that new math again…
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Excellent post. Great job of sifting through the rhetoric and pointing out the important matters.
Fantastic job of summing up all of the campaign in one post! I would love to print this out for my Mom to read (she has no computer–never plans to get one), but she would just throw it in the trash. She is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal democrat (like 99% of my family) and she does not want to be confused with the facts, thank you very much. She will vote for whoever sounds good and will do whatever she thinks her neighbors need. Unfortunately, that is what alot of people think who only get their news from the mainstream media. They are doing OK, but their neighbors just MUST be having a terrible time. It is maddening! I wish people would open their eyes and see what Obama stands for and what terrible consequences that he and a possible Democratic congress will inflict upon our country! Our best hope is people like my Mom will just stay home. She was a Hillary Clinton supporter.
Now that the dust has settled I think that it can be said that ‘eyes are opened’ by promoting what you stand for, and not promoting what you stand against.
As this election has demonstrated, nobody had their eyes opened.