SOUND-OFF: Final Presidential Debate

You can’t blame the Bush administration for everything within the last 8 years.  The Democrats are the ones who have controlled Congress for the last 2 years and that’s when the biggest part of this mess started!!

If lower taxes for the rich and less regulation for corporations are the answer to creating a good economy, why are we in so much trouble?  The Republican party has been in power for 8 years, and these policies have all but wrecked our country’s economy.  Now McCain proposes to lower the taxes for the rich yet more, and to pay for a huge givaway to fat cats in Wall Street, paid for with your tax dollars. 

McCain hoped to harness an ugly, slavering beast comprised of far-right paranoia, hatred, fear, prejudice, and ignorance, and ride it to victory, but now he is starting realize that many Americans dislike his substitution of slander for an actual discussion of the issues.

His zig-zagging on slandering Obama is just one more example of his increasingly erratic behavior and poor judgment, and yet more proof that he has completely lost his moral center—the result of selling his soul to the Karl Rove faction of the Republican party. He is retracting some of his slanders, not because he has repented of them, but because he sees that they have backfired by alienating the undecided voters that he needs if he is to have any hope of winning.

To all of this we have to add McCain’s truly horrible pick for Vice President.  What was he thinking?  He’s 72 years old and has had repeated bouts with cancer!  Can any of us really imagine a President Palin?  The thought is frightening-she is far more ignorant and inexperienced than our current president was when he took office, and we have seen what a disaster he created:  The occupation of Iraq, the hunt for Bin Laden, Katrina, Wall Street and the banking deregulation fiasco have combined to create a perfect storm of misery for the US.

McCain’s claim to be a ‘maverick’ are absurd-he has voted with Bush 90% of the time, has over 80 lobbyists on his staff, and has elected to veer to the far right in his campaign, to the point of taking advice from Karl Rove. A better description would indeed be erratic, as he claims Obama would raise taxes more than he would one moment, and then the next moment comes up his very own $300,000,000 pork-barrel give-away program to people who borrowed money they couldn’t possibly pay back.

I don’t think many of us are enjoying the McCain campaign’s tactic of slandering the opposition instead of focusing on the issues.  Certainly, for every negative thing they say about Obama, they have a similar or worse charge that can be leveled against McCain.  Obama and Ayers?  How about McCain and the Contras? 

If you are enjoying the meltdown of the banking system and the Dow at 9000, you’ll love a McCain Presidency—McCain was right there with Bush deregulating the banks and freeing them from the constraints that previously prevented this kind of greed-driven disaster. Think back, when was the last time you felt secure and prosperous?  I’ll bet Clinton was President.  This is not a coincidence.  Vote Obama, if you don’t want another Great Depression.