Couric= Palin somehow manages to falter and fail in the face of the EASIEST interview questions around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUMUASwaec
Hannity= is a tool
“Charlie” Brodin= I couldn’t hear anything except for the unmistakable annoyance that Brodin was emitting for being repeatedly called “Charlie”

Read up on the Savings & Loan crisis of the 1980’s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_Loan_crisis

Same problems then as we’re having now. Only then it cost us nearly $160B . . . ouch.
While you’re at it, why not read who was involved in the scandels!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

Now that that’s out of the way, I have a lot of thoughts on this post.  During his first term, I thought that George W. Bush was a great president.  In my mind, he handled the issues related to 9/11 as good as could have been expected.  His real downfall came during his second term.  He gave those who elected him all sorts of things to look forward to and then sold out on issues like immigration, social security, and the economy.  Needless to say, I’m very disappointed.

When it comes to the economy, anybody that has half of a brain could see this coming.  Unbridled spending leads to problems in business, personal, and government.  If I spent money like the federal government does, I’d be bankrupt.  They have an advantage over me though in that they can print more money.  If I did that, I’d go to a federal prison. 

When the economic stimuli packages were introduced, I hated them.  They were a band aid that was going to cause more harm than good in the long run.  With the banks, housing market, etc. all having serious, serious problems, the government’s idea of a fix is to once again spend our way out of it.  That’s part of what got us here.  And oh yeah, THAT”S NOT THEIR DAMN JOB!  If a business fails for whatever reason, let if fail.  Sure, it hurts and it sucks hard but it gives people to learn from what went wrong and make the system that much better.  If a bank lends money to a dumbass that can’t afford to pay it back, both parties should learn from it.  The lender shouldn’t give a $250,000 home loan to a guy on welfare and the guy on welfare has no business taking out a loan that big.  As far as I’m concerned they got what they had coming.  Stupid hurts.   

What we need is more people with integrity and common sense.  (Common sense ain’t so common nowadays.  How else can you explain The Hills?)  Businesses will fail.  People will go bankrupt.  Luke will kiss his sister then get owned by his dad.  It’s all part of life, which by the way, is not fair no matter how hard you try to make it so.  Remember Animal Farm?  That’s exactly where we’re headed no matter who gets elected because neither candidate will give a crap once they’re actually in office.  My hope is that McCain wins and then dies because that’s the only thing that I can see bringing about any sort of real change.   

For the record, I am a registered Republican but only because I want to vote in the primaries.  (I hate the closed primary system.)  I will vote for whomever I think will do the best job and represent my ideals while in office be it Democrat or Republican.  Heck, I’d even vote for a third party candidate if they were the best option.  “Go ahead!  Throw your vote away!”   

This makes it all the more
important that we actually do take a real look at this election. Because if
there is one thing that President Bush has done, it is to prove that the
President may in fact be the most important person in our country. The person
who holds that office is of greater importance now that at any time in recent
history. Both sides seem to agree that real changes need to be made, we just
need to examine who’s change we want.

As a previous post of mine
pointed out I am in a very real way terrified by the Republican ticket. John
McCain has sold his soul for the presidency, and Tina Fey frightens me more and
more every day. McCain has reached a new low for lying to get what he wants.
Even Karl Rove, a man who never met a dirty tactic he didn’t love, has admitted
that McCain has gone a bit far in some of his advertisements. One of my
instructors, who is the director of the Political Science department and a
former lawyer for McCain during his 200 bid, was told by friends of his still
inside the McCain camp that up until a few days before Sarah Palin was chosen
McCain was set on picking someone else (Democrat in name only Joe Liebermen).
She was forced on him by the party, because she is what they actually want in a
candidate. She is pro guns, drilling, God, and is anti global warming, the
environment, abortion, evolution and many other things that are directly opposed
to McCain. With a candidate who is 72 years old the Republican Party is
drooling hoping that he will die in office, and she can step in. They knew that
they couldn’t have gotten a candidate as crazily right wing as her through the
public election process, because she would actually have to answer questions
from reporters. Zohner I’m interested to hear your defense of the fact that she
has only had 3 interviews, including one with Katie Courac (not exactly a hard
hitting journalist), and another with Sean Hannity (a man who is practically on
the payroll for the Republican party).

We are at a crossroads as a
nation. It is time to see if capitalism actually can work. Capitalism puts
profits above everything, which is how we got into this situation. If the only
way this system can work is for our country to turn into a Socialist state,
then capitalism has failed.