Archive for September 25, 2007

What issues do you look forward to hearing about
in the upcoming U.S. Presidential debates?

What do you mean by "upcoming"? They've been debating since what seems like last year!

Seriously, nothing. Everything said in the debates is a carefully constructed rehearsed statement which tells the viewer nothing except that the candidate has a PR guy. Every politician falls into this trap, making the debates a waste of time, really. Pre-formulated questions with pre-formulated responses (that might not even be related to the actual question) and in the end the pundits debate who "looked" more presidential. They're not even really debates. It's just two (or more) people talking past each other, just brushing the surface and never going into the details.

You know what…I'm going to go as far as to say that televised debates are the worst thing that's ever happened to the political process in this nation. It causes too much emphasis on presentation and not enough on the actual content of the message which is the important thing. If you don't come across well on TV or had a bad makeup job or something, boom, that's it. You're written off as being "not presidential" even if you were the guy with the best ideas and the ability to make it work.

But if you really want to know what I'm most interested in hearing some straight talk about, it would be mostly Iraq. I'd like to know what the candidate's plans are for getting out of there in a controlled fashion that's not going to cause any more harm than we already have. I'd also like to know if anybody else has plans for attempting to take it upon themselves to spread democracy around the globe (aka, Iran) because I'd like to know who not to vote for. Narrow the field down a bit. And people wonder why the US isn't viewed favorably outside it's borders…sheesh.

Man, it's been a ranty couple weeks around here.

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