Iraq

I do not feel as strongly as you do when you say “the government is in the right hands.” I feel that Obama is making a horrible decision when it comes to the removal of our troops. I have had two very close friends of mine serve in Iraq. This is a subject that hits pretty close to home in my heart. I feel that the removal of the troops would only make our country weaker! Yes it was a mistake for President Bush to send our troops over there in the first place, but he sent them over there to help that county gain back control of its people. Many soldiers have lost their lives in this war, and for what reason? We still have yet to finish the job that the troops were sent to do! If we pull out now all the soldiers that lost their lives over there would have been for nothing. Believe me I want our troops out of there more than anything, I have family there! Its just not the right time, we need to finish what we started so the ones that lost their lives lost them for a reason, not because we could not finish the job!

Money Money Money

I work for a financial company that is backed by an independent lender. Every day I have customers come into my office asking me what I can do to help them pay off the debt because they have lost their job. Many people call in and tell me that there have been lay offs in their company and hours are being cut back. The United States is going through a financial crisis! It seems that we continue to turn for the worst every day; nothing seems to get any better for the citizens of the county!
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA was purposed, and the act was passed by the senate on October 1st. President Bush signed it into act on October 3rd.
This act was supposed to provide relief for the country. My question is, when the HELL are we going to start seeing this relief. It kills me to have to look a customer in the face and say I can only give you a extension on you loan for another month I can not hold off any longer then that. Yeah gas has gone down but when people do not have jobs it does not really matter how much gas coast because you can not afford it anyway!
All I can say is I hope that this new president will get this country back on its feet and get the good American people back into their jobs and bring the families that have been broken up, due to the financial crisis, back together!

Enough is Enough

Stop Already! I completely agree with you on this subject! I must say that I am so happy that this election is now done and over with. Even though I must say I was not going to be happy with either one of the candidates that were running. I too felt that this election did nothing but tear down America even more then what it was! We had enough to deal with two different parties running. The democrats will always disagree with the republicans, but when this election threw a curve ball into the equation then not only did we disagree with political values but now we have to deal with race on an even bigger playing field then we had already been playing! I over some of my employees talking the night of the election and it really disturbed me! One of them stated they really wanted Obama to when but it would be such a same because they felt by voting for him they were contributing to Obama losing his life. I was so sick of hearing about this election that I had to stop all of my employees from talking about any politics in the office! Now that it is over its not any better though. This election will for ever go down into history as not only as the election that we got our first African American president but also the election that helped destroy the American people, in such a way that even the drunk people at two O’ clock in the morning felt the need to fight over Obama and McCain!

Election Goes Down in History

One of the most memorable elections is about to go down into history. This presidential election could make or break the United States of America. As Obama and McCain battle it out America awaits to see what damage will be done. Will Obama raise taxes or will McCain keep us in the war in Iraq? This question is something that all Americans will have on their minds as they walk up to the polls to place their vote. Obama is all about redistributing the wealth among the poor, and by doing so raising taxes on those that make a certain income. McCain states that raising taxes in a bad economic climate is the worst thing that you could possibly do.
Obama wants to get our troops out of Iraq as soon as possible. What about all those troops that have lost their lives already, if we pull out now then those troops would have lost their lives for no reason. We have not finished what we were sent to do in Iraq it would be a waste to pull out now. McCain believes to keep the same winning strategy that we have now. He feels we should bring our troops home with victory and honor
I agree very strongly with McCain. Either way I feel that each candidate will lead America into some disappointment.
Republican states that seem to be a for sure vote seems to be losing more and more ground each day. McCain has seemed to have lost his home state of Arizona. As of today Obama leads McCain 131 electoral votes, just three votes higher then he was up yesterday. This election will go down into history books, an election that may very well cause fights to break out or cause an assassination.

INVESTIGATING ANTI-AMERICANISM

The blog discussing the McCarthy-like investigation into the anti-American activities of liberals is definitely intended to fuel the fires of a democratic-based audience. The title of the blog, Bachmann anti-American, along with the blanket statements listed throughout the “article” all point to a more liberal view of politics. The credibility of this particular author, although unknown, is hard to determine. The facts stated seem to be accurate, but the ways in which they are portrayed are definitely less than objective. For example, the claim that “all liberal views are anti-American” seems to be an extreme interpretation of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s statement. I think it’s worth investigating Senator Barack Obama’s patriotism, or lack thereof, as he is vying for the position of president of the United States of America. If we cannot count on our president to be pro-American, who can we count on? He will be representing our country in all matters – finance, international affairs, environmental issues, etc. However, I don’t necessarily agree with a McCarthy-like investigation by the media (of all sources) into the anti-American activities of Congress. After all, isn’t the McCarthy era one that our country has learned from and would like to avoid repeating? Also, why should the media, who in my opinion, are notoriously biased to the Democratic platform, be the initiators of such an investigation, assuming one is actually necessary? I would think an official investigation by the Department of Justice would be more appropriate. It’s interesting that a Republican (allegedly) made such a suggestion.

Did She Do It?

On October 2nd 2008 a vice presidential debate was held between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. A writer from the “Dallas Morning News” argues the fact if Palin survived the debate. In my opinion yes, I feel that she held her own! She stood strong! Although she did not fall, she also did not prove herself to the American people!
The Arthur of the editorial “Palin survives to fight another day” (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-debate_03edi.ART.State.Edition1.18a5ad6.html)argues that she did not fall flat on her face, but at the same time she did not win the debate either. This editorial was trying to get the American voters attention, and opinions on how they felt Palin did. I completely agree with the Arthur on the fact that the debate did not change the dynamics of the race. I feel that it still is leaning towards Obama.
Mr. Biden was very strong when he spoke about the issues concerning our government’s economy. As Mrs. Palin spoke very strong about making our government energy independent. The Arthur aggress as well when it comes to who spoke better on what topics. There are some topics that I disagree with in the editorial. I feel at the start of the debate Palin showed how nervous she was. She started out very slow and not really giving answers to the questions that were asked. I feel that she kept going back and repeating the same things over again when Biden would take a shot at something she said. She did how ever get better towards the middle of the debate. The editorial states that Palin started out sharp, and strong. I’m not sure which debate the Arthur was watching but it was not the start of the same one I was.
I feel that the Arthur has a slight liking to Mrs. Palin when it comes down to it. I do feel Palin did hold her own, but I don’t feel that she did as well as the editorial is giving her credit for!

Race still a issue

No matter how far our country has come we will always have a issue with race. This issue has always and will continue to be a concern in our country. As Americans we do not speak openly about race, but we will subtly bring it up in different conversations. I honestly feel that no matter what the year race will always be something that is thrown around within day to day life.
I have understood growing up that race is something that we are supposed to look beyond, and judge people not by the color of their skin but by their personality. How are we supposed look beyond race when our own senator McCain can not look past the color of another person's skin? In the article McCain uses Fannie Mae's failure against Obama.(http://time-blog.com/swampland/) This is perfectly acceptable, but when he uses two black guys to be the bad guys and than a white little old lady as the victim is when he goes to far.