Comments on: Vice Presidential Debate

By: T-Brain

T-Brain — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:16:10 +0000

Someone much smarter than me once stated: “The America policital system was perfectly created by geniuses to one day be run by idiots.” It’s not about you… it’s not about me… it’s about US as a whole. Remember the saying: “united we stand, divided we fall” Are you an American first or a Democrat/Republican first?
I’m not perfect, nor have I ever claimed to be, nor will I ever try and fool myself into thinking I could achieve perfection… If you think our leaders should be perfect and be exactly what we imagine in our minds… shoot yourself now and save the rest of us from your stupidity. Everybody has flaws, everybody is influenced by their upbringing or religion or whatever… and since there are over 300 million of us… I’m quite sure there is someone out there that doesn’t fit our image of the perfect leader. Stop talking about it and let your vote be your voice. The rest of us don’t wanna hear it!!!

By: crystal

crystal — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:06:27 +0000

ah….i thought it was good.

By: Barrie Evans

Barrie Evans — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:34:15 +0000

Y’know, folksy is great stuff at times. However, I don’t want “Joe” or “Jill Six-pack” running the nation. Just because someone is a nice person, do you want them building a weight-bearing structure, such as a bridge carrying thousands of trucks and commuters everyday? Or, would you rather have an engineer design the bridge and trained construction workers build it? Who wants someone who is just one of us running the nation when their experience is so slight and their knowledge of national issues so shallow.

By: M.O.M.

M.O.M. — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:06:36 +0000

Welcome to the world of political debates. This is the reason people need to be well-read on the candidates, and not get all they [know] from watching a debate on TV. People are too easily (mis)led by the spoken word. Research, research, research is the key to seeking wisdom, so you don’t just settle for who looked and sounded the best. Politicians know that people have short memories and that’s why these debates become so important just a few weeks before it’s time to vote. They also know that people are very busy and most won’t take the time to look elsewhere to verify what’s been said. Read up on where each candidate stands, and do so from various sources/publications — some of those are bias, if you can imagine — and not just one source, because wisdom comes from seeking out the expected as well as the unexpected information.
PS It’s not a perfect world with perfect people where nothing bad ever happens and nobody makes mistakes — either with pronounciations or facts in history. Yes, we should expect our leaders to be able to say the word “nuclear,” but we should also be able to expect our leaders to know that the stock market crash was in 1929 when Hoover (not Roosevelt) was in office, and people didn’t have TVs in their homes…what are you going to do? Stuff happens. People who don’t yet understand that the President doesn’t make every decision on everything need to educate themselves so that they aren’t ignorant or appear stupid!

By: Kelsey Little

Kelsey Little — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:07:08 +0000

A a wise man I know stated “We are choosing the lesser of two evils”.
I for one would love to see a debate were the candidates would not do the he said she said and go at each other. But since it is very easy to twist the truth buy leaving out a few facts. Example: one may state you voted no for the bill to give health care to more children and to increase pay to teachers but leave out the part were the reason they voted no was that there was to much pork in the bill, that had nothing to do with the bill as it was original written, or that there was a better bill that was going to be voted on that would address these issues. The problem I see is to much of the I want power and to keep my job. I do not see enough of the do what is right for our country and her people.
I could go on and on but I won’t, let me end with the statement that we need to stop sending our dollars to other countries and spend more of our money at home by using our own oil, by building refineries in our own country, by using and looking for all sources of energy, just think of all the jobs that would be created buy do this ad how we would become stronger as a nation. I do recognize that there are may states and companies that are putting allot of money and time in these ares and I am grateful for their efforts.