Tonight’s debate has convinced me of two things:
- John McCain wants me to think he’s a conservative.
- Barack Obama is a Socialist.
McCain wants me to get on board with his spending cuts. I favor spending cuts, but when John McCain accepted the Republican nomination for President, he promised to veto any pork barrel bills that come across his desk. He said I would “know their names.” McCain just voted in favor of the $700 bailout rescue bill. How is that fiscal conservatism? How does he expect me to believe that he’ll veto bogus spending bills when, while in the heat of an election race, he voted in favor of a big pork barrel bill?
Barack Obama wants redistribute wealth. He wants to get the federal government involved with providing my family’s health care. He wants me to believe that a free market won’t work and that Americans need the government to come in and rescue us from the big, bad companies. Everything he has said tonight has to do with bigger government, more control, and more regulations.
What really confuses me is they go back and forth bickering over relatively small dollar amounts. Several million dollars here, a billion or so over there, another couple hundred million somewhere else. Isn’t there still a national debt of 10 trillion dollars?
Where is a candidate that will propose some real changes in the way government works? Where is a candidate that wants to get serious about fixing some problems? Neither of these men will be the President that America truly needs. No matter who wins this election, we all lose.
