The Debate

What a bunch of crap!

One hour and twelve minutes into this farce I cannot imagine anyone has been moved to change their mind about who they will vote for on November 4th. As expected Obama is spouting his "I am the smartest person in the room" and "I know everything". John McCain, predictably, draws upon his 35 years of experience, recalling situations that demonstrate his experience. What did they accomplish? In reality not much.

The reality is that the country will vote for John McCain because he is white and old or for Barak Obama because he is black and young. You can sift through the bullshit and the geography lesson each tries to impress us with and they don't mean anything. Historically this would favor McCain because old white people vote more than young and black people. The question is what will young white women do? I have never been successful in predicting this so I won't even bother.

My perspective is clear and would be clear if they had 400 debates. Past behaviors are reliable predictors of future behaviors. Obama has never seriously invested himself in anything before he began running for president. What little record he has is very liberal, bordering on socialist. He has been about as maleable as putty during his quest for the presidency and wouldn't know real conviction if it bit him on the ass. He is not ready to be president and it scares the hell out of me to imagine the country I love under his leadership.

In McCain's words he has never won a Miss Congeniality contest and I really don't care for him personally. He is a grumpy old man! But I don't plan to date him, watch a football game or drink a beer with him. But I do trust him to do what's right for our country so I will vote for him.