Posted by
New-Politico.Org on Monday, October 06, 2008 3:25:26 PM
While the electoral map looks more and more dismal for John McCain,
both campaigns have started resorting to personal attacks. It was the McCain
Campaign that started the shooting match. Sarah Palin said that Obama had had
the habit of hanging around with accused terrorists. I wish she hadn’t. I wish
that it had been the Obama Campaign that had started the dirty business.
The issues have been sidelined and now past associations and
past scandals seem to be the order of the day. Frankly, I don’t care much whether
John McCain was involved with the Keating bunch or if Barack Obama had a
love-in with a terrorist. These past events and associations simply do not
matter given the enormity of the problems facing our nation right now, today,
in 2008!
Personally, as an American voter, I want to know what they
are going to do about the current economic crisis. I want to hear specific
plans. I want to hear what we are going to do to prevent this financial tsunami
from ever plaguing us again. I also want to hear what they have learned in the
past three weeks that will make a difference in the way they are going to
handle the economic crisis. I want to hear that everyone to blame is being
investigated by the FBI for the possibility of fraud. I need to hear what their
penalties are if they are found guilty of fraud or gross mismanagement. I need
to hear that the taxpayer is now a shareholder in every entity that was bailed
out. I need to hear that taxpayers will be paid interest on their loan to these
entities before a single shareholder gets a penny.
Given that the whole economic climate of America has
changed, I don’t want to hear whether the other guy will raise my taxes or not.
I don’t want to hear about whether the bailout was right or wrong, it done now
and to quote the Bard, “it cannot be undone”. Please don’t let me hear about
health care; that is perhaps the biggest pipe dream, today, that either
candidate ever had. That isn’t happening for a long, long time. If we are so
tuned in to national security, can you imagine what is going to be the state of
our national security if we go headlong into a deep, deep depression which will
take us five year to dig out of? How much more susceptible do you think we
would be to terrorist attacks.
Let’s have answers and solutions and not accusations….