Presidential Debate I finally get to speak my peace about the debate that saw John McCain say some pretty interesting things. The first being a freeze on all government spending except Defense and Veteran affairs! What about education and technology? I guess when your 71, you might not care as much about the future. The U.S government is currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq. Think about that for a second. $10 billion a month… when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports 34,000 registered companies in Iraq, up from 8,000 three years ago! Iraqi business has more than quadrupled since Sadam was captured meanwhile, the average American can barely afford mortgage…let alone open a new business.

Finally George Bush makes a decision America can live with. President Bush finally made a decision in the best interest of America…maybe he’s feeling guilty about past decisions that have not benefited the average American! The Republican way of thinking is usually, if it’s not affecting me than it’s not my problem, but even conservatives must have realized that America’s uncorrected problems can often come back to bite them in the “You know where”! The $700 Billion dollar plan isn’t perfect…but then again no plan involving that much money could be. John McCain has questioned whether America can afford to implement such a plan when the question should be can it afford not two. By Monday the Senate had put a side political ties and passed the bill, which was then shot down by the House of Representatives. By Wednesday a new plan was in front of the senate that added $110 million dollars in tax breaks, it passed and is now awaiting approval from the House of Representatives. After some serious lobbying by the president and other supporters of the bill, it is expected to pass when the house votes on Friday.

$120 billion dollars a year is pumping into their already stable economy as ours continues to fall and fall fast. In the same three years that Iraq has saw its economical boom, the Dow Jones has dropped to a three year low. That means the last time it was this low was shortly after the invasion of Iraq. I wonder if that’s a coincidence. By the way, while exact figures haven’t been released it is a fact that Iraq currently has a budget surplus, said U.S. Comptroller General David Walker! Meanwhile we have spent $45 billion on rebuilding Iraq. Also On September 30, 2008, the total U.S. federal debt passed the $10 trillion mark, for the first time ever. I didn’t major in mathematics but my eight year old daughter could figure this one out.

Maybe it was worth it. At least we got those weapons of mass destruction right? Oh…that’s right there weren’t any. So tell me again why we spent over $500 billion and counting on this war? Even if the war was a half a trillion dollar mistake to keep spending money on it and not put money into education and technology is just making a bad decision worse. I could bring up the premature withdrawal from Afghanistan…but that probably has less to do with McCain and more to do with President Bush’s cozy relationship with the Bin Laden family. No I’m not necessarily a Michael Moore conspiracy theorist but facts are facts. We have 126,900 troops in Iraq and we still have found not even the slightest proof of the weapons we were supposedly looking for. In comparison there are 23,000 troops in Afghanistan looking for Osama Bin Laden. In a 2007 report published in The Washington Post, the US government concluded that Osama Bin Laden was present during the Battle of Tora Bora, Afghanistan in late 2001, and according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge, failure by the US to commit US ground troops to hunt him led to his escape and was the gravest failure by the US in the war against al Qaeda. The Washington Post also reported that the CIA unit dedicated to capturing Osama was shut down in late 2005.

One of John McCain’s reason’s for leaving Afghanistan and seeing the war in Iraq through is “So the soldiers that died didn’t die in vein.” So is McCain saying casualties of the Vietnam War died in vein? That certainly was a war that no one can argue…was an American loss. Obama was right in saying anybody that fights for their country never dies in vein. So the “military expert”, John McCain was wrong about the U.S. “Muddling through Afghanistan.” He was wrong about the “Quick resolution”, of the war in Iraq. He threatened extinction to North Korea, said Iran is a threat to the United States and has said he would invade Russia to prevent another holocaust. No wonder he doesn’t want to cut the defense budget, he plans on starting World War III the day after inauguration. Next up the vice Presidential debate…can’t wait to see how many times Sarah Palin sticks her foot in her mouth. I especially can’t wait to hear her take on foreign policy…after all she can see Russia from Alaska!

Vice Presidential Debate

I’ll get into this more next week but I couldn’t resist…the quote of the night.

“The Ultimate bridge to nowhere” – Sen. Joe Biden.

If you didn’t get it look up Sarah Palin and her plan to use government funds to build a $442-million bridge to connect a city with 8,000 people to an airport which sees under 400,000 travelers a year!

Most over used phrase – “Maverick” – Sarah Palin