This Election Could Make or Break America

Both candidates are claiming that they are agents of change in Washington. They have both said that Washington is broken. They both have said that they are going to fix it. America’s morale and confidence in Washington is obviously terrible, and that shows with both candidates trying to prove they are agents of change against Washington corruption. With that said, America is growingly apathetic toward politics and could careless if they should vote or not. Thus, the reason that voting programs have tried and failed.

It doesn’t matter if McCain wins or if Obama wins, if something doesn’t happen to the corruption in Washington by either candidate the America we know in the history books will be gone. A large majority of people will lose faith in politicians, will lose faith in the system, and lose faith in Democracy in general. Thus, if Obama and McCain don’t deliver on what they say they are going to do, then the future of politics will be drastically changed and America could be worse off. Sure, there will always be people that believe in the establishment and continue to vote, but when generation after generation lives through continous and unchange corruption, how can you blame them for not thinking that anything can be done?

Apathy grows with the depressing thoughts of no control and no choice.

Posted by Alcamadus

Is Palin Obama’s Achilles Heel?

It would seem that the Obama/Biden campaign is struggling to effectively take on the Palin factor. They are tredding carefully for various reasons I am sure.

1. They don’t want to scare away potential women voters. Any harsh criticism toward Palin could seriously injure the Obama campaign by scaring women away, and whether that would be true or not, Obama isn’t willing to take the chance.

2. Palin isn’t from Washington. She has gone against her own party. She has proven herself to be extremely successful as a governor. She is change. Walking the walk is much more powerful for voters and the public and it is hard to deny. Obama will try to brush it off and say that she isn’t change, but he obviously knows its going to be hard to compete against, and with someone else with that background and stating that they are change, it takes the wind out of his sails.

3. Palin just took any chance of Obama convincing a large majority of Republicans on the fence to his side. Obama has been making initiatives to get Christians and Moderate Republicans to vote for him. While this was particularly hard to believe that he would be successful at this, it is most definitely dead in the water now. With this door closed, Obama will have to reorganize and try to find another way to gain more ground.

Side notes that could also injure Obama’s campaign. Obama is known for being extremely liberal. Biden is also very liberal. McCain is know for being moderate. Palin is known for being conservative. They are more diverse in the political spectrum. Palin will bring the conservative base with her. McCain will get the moderate Republicans and Democrats. All Obama will get is extreme liberal democrats and minority voters. Which, lets be honest, isn’t enough to win in November. With a voting battleground that heavily depends on wooing indepedents and moderates, the McCain/Palin campaign could seriously do some heavy damage.

Once again, the country is divided. No one should have any illusions about this election being a cakewalk for Obama. While Bush is unpopular, congress is just as unpopular if not more so, which means that Democrats are also to blame for the nations woes. People (mostly meaning indepedents) may take this into account and want the campaign that will actually take on big wigs, corruption, and Washington insiders.

Posted by Alcamadus

Convention Speeches FactCheck

I was parousing CNN.com just recently and I discovered a nice little feature by them by FactCheck.org. It corrected some of the points that both McCain and Obama made at their Convention speeches. Being that most of America is a big herd of gullible and naive sheep, sources like FactCheck.org on the internet is amazing. I encourage everyone from both sides to check this website and feature on CNN to realize that the candidates are politicians. No matter how much you may like them, or agree with them, or think they are the next best thing to sliced bread, they are going to twist, turn, bend, and break the truth in hopes that most of America won’t check on their statements.

In any case, I am not going to put the facts on this blog. Click the link. That’s what it’s there for.

Posted by Alcamadus

Public Believe Media Hurting Palin

According to a recent Rassmussen poll report, the American public 10 to 1 believes that the media is biasly and prejudicely attacing Palin to hurt her politically. 24% of US voters said that these reports make them want to vote for McCain.

For Republicans it is 80 to 6 percent, for Democrats its 28 to 4 percent, and unaffiliated voters are 49 to 5 percent all believing that the media is attacking Palin. Only 5% of the public believed that the media was trying to help Palin.

This just goes to show that the public is not as stupid as the media believes it to be and will not buy into everything they feed them. It also shows that the media could really shoot Obama in the foot politically. If you scour the comments on most news websites, you will find several people upset with the media establishment. More and more people are getting frustrated with how bias, tasteless, and shallow the news is becoming. The public is noticing and I think that if the news doesn’t pick up on this and soon, they could seriously hurt their credibility. Too often does America gun for the underdog, especially if they notice something foul in the information they have been fed by the media.

Posted by Alcamadus

Abhorrent, Despicable, Deplorable, and Monstrous!

Who are you people?

All I see through-out the blogosphere is the most detestable and despicable attacks I have ever read. All this wicked gossip about Palin and the slander that is being spread needs to stop immediately. It has gone way too far and is absolutely monstrous! I don’t care if you don’t agree with the GOP, McCain, Palin, Bush, or whoever! You at least have the dignity and respect to treat them like human beings. Here we have both the DNC and the RNC talking about how America comes first, how being an American is more important than party lines, and yet the American people can’t even get passed it! We can’t follow suit to what our leaders try to tell us to do. We are the most rebellious and deplorable generation, spitting on the people who lead us. Who do you think you are?

I am seriously disgusted. Spreading these attacks against Palin is just as awful as all the terrible rumors spread against Obama. I don’t care what side you are on, I don’t care if you just can’t stand either platform, you respect who they are and you treat them with dignity. Both sides just need to stop immediately, before politics leads down an even more terrible road than it already is on.

Rant Posted by Alcamadus

Palin Jolts the Republican Heart into Action

I just read an article about how Palin is apparently jump starting a new craze of Republican support across the nation. It’s an interesting read. Check it out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080831/pl_politico/13016

Obaminomics

Contradiction.

That is the best way to explain his economic plan. He talked about a lot of spending, but then cutting a huge chunk of taxes. He told people that when they get knocked down they have to get back up again, but then he chastised government for not helping people when they fall down. He talked about individual responsiblity but then said we have to be accountable to each other, and so on and so forth.

Personally, I think the taxes issue is the worst. It sounds great to cut taxes and also to start pumping tons of money into the economy, but that isn’t going to help right now. We don’t need The Great Society, but that is what people want to hear. I think we are really going to have to listen carefully to what Obama wants to do with our economy because I am definitely not sold by that speech. It will be interesting to hear the debates that they will have in the upcoming months.

Posted by Alcamadus

Change We Don’t Want to Believe In

It is pretty obvious the Democratic party is pushing the idea of “Change”. My even writing that sentence should make me “Captain Obvious”. Obama mentioned the different things he wants to change in his nomination speech, and several campaign workers and Joe Biden have been quoted saying, “That’s not change, that’s more of the same”.

The first question I have to ask is, “What audience are they speaking to?” It is obvious that it’s a largely liberal, Democratic party audience. This audience wants any scent of the Bush Administration out of the White House. Thus, all the “McCain/Bush Administration” statements that Biden and other campaign managers have been throwing out. They are trying to link McCain and Bush together. However, it would seem they are also trying to convince Independents (and maybe some on the fence conservatives) that Bush’s policies have been bad and that change in Obama is good. However, a lot of what Obama had to say for change isn’t actually change at all. It is just change to the Democratic policies. So, let’s be clear, this isn’t some kind of perfect, beautiful, and universal American change that everyone agrees with, this is the Democratic parties version of change. I am sure that Ralph Nader wants to create lots of change too if he became President, but that doesn’t mean it is the change we need. And even McCain mentioned that he wants to bring about change as well (and has criticized the Bush administration) but he says we need the right kind of change.

I suppose I  am just tired of the Democratic parties brainwashing rhetoric about change as if their change is some awesome, all-powerful change from on high. And let’s just get down to the basics here, if you like Obama’s policies and the Democratic parties policies, then vote because of that, don’t vote because they are brainwashing you into believing in some universal change. If you like McCain’s policies than vote for McCain. We are a divided nation; a large part of the country doesn’t actually agree with Obama on what he wants to change. There are a lot of people out there that don’t think we need a lot of change. And make no mistake, there will always be things to change, but once again not necessarily in the way that Obama is plotting.

So, when you read articles about people saying, ”Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies. That’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same,” he [Burton] said.” Just ignore it and focus on the issues. Vote not on change alone, but on what candidate will actually bring about a better focus and goals for the country, because in the end this is what they are really telling you:

“We don’t agree with anything that the other side says and you need to agree with us that those things are wrong. Thus, it will never be the ‘change we need’.”

I could find a whole lot of people that would say that the above issues that Burton mentioned is exactly the change we need. Once again, we are a divided nation.

Posted by Alcamadus

Speak for Yourself Obama Campaign

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” Burton said in a statement.

This is a quote from a Obama campaign spokesperson. And everyone replies, “YOU DID THE SAME THING WITH YOUR OWN CANDIDATE!”

How ignorant and hypocritical is this guy? Obama has NO foreign policy experience either and he is running for President! I think they might want to change their attack playbook if they think that jab is actually good.

Also, congratulations to Sarah Palin for her recent nomination as Vice President.

Posted by Alcamadus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080829/pl_afp/usvotemccainobamavp

The Showdown: Obama v. McCain

It would seem that the big hub-bub around the internet right now is the civil forum that went on at Saddleback Church with Rick Warren interviewing John McCain and Barack Obama. I figured, why not do a little commentary to express my opinions on how it went.

Obama

You have to give him a little credit. This guy just walked willingly into the lions den and tried his best to build bridges and reach common ground. It was pretty obvious that he was on trial even if it didn’t feel that way during the interview, you know that everyone was watching his every word, scaning every detail, and pursuing some slip up that he would make. Most have criticized his verbose answers saying it makes him look more like an elitist. Well, to some extent, that is exactly what he had to do. He was on trial. You don’t walk into a church and say, “I am not pro-life” and expect that to be the end of it. He had the short end of the stick. In any case, his answers for the most part were shallow, muddled, and round about ways to make sure he doesn’t get into trouble. Obama has to realize that he is going to have an uphill battle if he wants to convince Christians to come over to his side. Not many are going to come over that easy. They want to know what you believe on two things: Abortion and Homosexual marriage. If you fail to meet that criteria, more than likely you are a fish out of water. Obama’s performance on those two topics were (especially from a Christian perspective) F and F+. Once again, many have given him a lot of flack, and in many ways he deserves it, but for him to walk into that arena and walk out less damaged than he was is pretty impressive. I don’t think any other Democrats could have done that. Not John Kerry, Bill or Hillary Clinton, or Al Gore. The thing that Obama definitely has going for him is likability no matter what he believes. That kind of influence can take you a long way.

McCain

He did much better than I thought he would. Many have said that his concise answers were the better route to take, and while I agree; I think it should at least be put into consideration that he was on his own turf (even if he isn’t the most liked in the Evangelical Christian community). He is still a conservative. He didn’t have to explain much and all he had to do was emphasize that he is a conservative. He wasn’t under the gun. But, even with all that in mind, he still presented himself well and answered the questions with great sincerity and honesty. I read an article comparing the two candidates answers, and McCain definitely came off the stronger. If anything he came off as approachable and related well with the people he was speaking. On a personal level, I especially liked what he had to say about America’s moral failings. I think he hit the nail on the head.

If you want to read more specifics, then check the news websites. I believe CNN.com has the full interviews online. This was at least my small, concise take on their performance. I am looking forward to seeing their future debates.

Posted by Alcamadus