Stalemate Debate

I spent the day extremely excited about this debate. I grilled some steak, cracked open a beer, and settled in, for what I thought was going to be entertainment on a Super Bowl scale. Needless to say I was disappointed. Being nice and respectful in each others presence and pointed and harsh behind each others back is not noble for the good of the party, it’s spineless. It doesn’t erase what they’re saying behind each others back. They won’t even look at each other when they are being slightly critical in each others presence.

It‘s clear taxes are going to be raised. They spent time arguing about how far down the ladder each of their tax hikes are going to be. But it’s clear for people who are creating jobs, those whom economic hardships have hit, and in turn have had to cut jobs and opportunity for workers, are getting a tax increase under a Clinton or Obama presidency. I just don’t see how seemingly intelligent people can ignore the fact that jobs are lost when the rich have less money. The rich are business; the rich are employers not employees. So helping the poor at the expense of the rich is like throwing bandages on a wound while twisting the knife that’s still stuck in it. It never seems to stop there, some how the middle class get their taxes raised too. Obama told us, in almost the same sentence, that he will not raise the taxes of those who make under $200, 000 a year, but will raise the capital gains tax. Even he admits this will affect people making well under $200, 000. To make things worse he ignores the fact that doing so has never raised more revenue.

The other thing that caught my attention was Hilary’s response to her Bosnia lie; she admitted just that; she lied. Either way… if she lied to pad her record or if she is simply a tired old lady who has trouble remembering the facts of events that have happened to her, it’s not good.

There are so many promises by these two that it’s ridiculous. The fact that they are going to pull us out of the war with our tail between our legs and then turn around and talk tough to Iran is laughable. If I was a friendly country like Israel, I wouldn’t feel very safe under a Clinton or Obama military umbrella.

I don’t think either came out victorious. The debate simply highlighted and strengthened what we already knew about these candidates; Hilary will say and do anything to be elected and Obama has a full out socialist agenda; facts be damned.


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Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate. Jay Leno