Oct 13 2008
Nailing jello to a wall
I‘m still confused as to what that means. I tried it, and I can assure you it is possible. In fact I didn’t even need nails, the jello just stuck on its own. Now I just have a nailed in wall covered with jello that I need to clean up. Thanks a lot John McCain.
A couple of notes from an interesting day around the campaign trails:
John McCain slammed the current administration today on the stump with running mate Sarah Palin, “We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: waiting for our luck to change.”
In my opinion this is what that campaign needed to be doing months ago. They needed to hit back at George W. Bush hard. I don’t care if you’re in the same party as him, people in America are fed up with Bush. He may even go down as the worst president in the history of the country. Any association you have with him is going to hurt you greatly. Of course you can find more common sense in a two year old than you can in the McCain campaign and I’m sure he’ll abandon this tactic after a few days as well.
Barack Obama announced a few details on a new plan to stimulate the economy that he and several other congressmen are working on. Highlights of the plan include a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses among other things.
“I’m proposing a number of steps that we should take immediately to stabilize our financial system, provide relief to families and communities and help struggling homeowners,” Obama told a crowd of 3,000. “It’s a plan that begins with one word that’s on everyone’s mind, and it’s spelled J-O-B-S.”
I hate to say something nice about Bush….but…he did do a pretty good job right after 9/11.
I believe that in time the truth may trickle out about the Bush presidency. I have a feeling historically people will look back at Bush and be very angry about what he did. I’m just glad he’s leaving.
I think that as time passes there will be some positive points of the Bush presidency that will come out - such as the work he’s done in Africa which the media isn’t interested in and therefore doesn’t bother giving it much air/paper space, (there was an article in Time Magazine some months back by Bob Geldolf who interviewed Bush over there), but overall, I think the adminstration gets a Fail grade.
The “rogue” quality of the Bush presidency will have to be addressed at some point through some public process. We can choose to continue to deny it, and try to just move beyond it all we want, but at some point we as a people are going to have to come to terms with “why and how did this happen; and what can we do to insure it never happens again”. As one that lived through Watergate, it just makes this presidency all the more incredulous. Ugh–don’t gt me started :) Okay, let’s get out there and have a GREAT day! ~k
The worrisome thing about the Bush years (well, one of many) is how greatly they’ve expanded the power of the executive branch and essentially ignored the Constitution. I can’t see any future president just handing that power back over to congress, regardless of where they sit on the political spectrum.
i agree with you in saying that even if you belong to the same party, one must acknowledge the failure of the other since the only way for us to address these mistakes if we see where we went wrong, bravely face it, and then, wisely address it. well, we also saw a lot of common sense from a 2 year old than Bush 4 years ago, but he won :( okay, i hate to be negative, but i really hope that the better candidate with better plans for the country and has stronger convictions on what is needed to be done will win and run the country.