I Want A Damn Debate

When I first got on-line this morning headlines were still saying the debate was questionable and just a couple minutes ago I saw that it will go on.  Well it’s a damn good thing.  And honestly everyone knows that this had nothing to do with McCain wanting to save the country and everything to do with him trying to save his slipping campaign.

I think everyone knows there’s a good chance this debate will have a lot of questions about the economy and he’s scared to talk about it.  Obama is much more versed on the subject and has had a plan to hopefully turn it around since the beginning of his run for the White House.  McCain has no idea what he’s going to do and he didn’t want to go toe to toe with someone who did.

I think he was still hoping that he’d be able to get the debate cancelled.  And I wouldn’t be surprised if he was behind that lame stunt the GOP pulled last night.  The bailout was very close to being worked out and then suddenly they decide they want a new plan and they aren’t going to negotiate on it.  Seriously that just seems desperate.  Like if a plan goes through then he has to debate but, if they are still working on it he can continue to try and get out of it.

Lets be real here folks unless he is actually in the room working on the plan he isn’t needed there until the vote.  If there’s people holding out and making a stink he has a phone and can call them to discuss it.  McCain was hoping Obama would cave but, he didn’t and he was right not to.

Not that I really cared if Bush spoke the other night but, he did in an attempt to calm the nation and say we will get this back on track.  Did he do that affectively?  I don’t know.  And at this time we do need to see the people who could be our next leader talking about what they think should be done and what could be done to continue fixing things down the road.  If you can’t step up to the plate now, how can we count on you to do it when you are running the country?

So the debate at this moment will go on.  Mainly because Obama didn’t back down and pretty much forced McCain’s hand.  I’ll be watching with great interest and it’ll be interesting to see comments from people afterwards.

The Palin Pregnancy Issue

So Gov. Palin’s 17 year old daughter is pregnant and we’re just suppose to ignore it because children are off limits.  Well, I’m not going to just ignore it and neither should anyone else.  However, it’s not about attacking the daughter it’s about attacking her mother and her politics on this subject.  There’s no way the Governor and her conservative counter parts should get a pass on this.  Of course that’s what they want and they’ll do whatever they can to get you to forget it and that it is an issue.

I don’t care that this girl had sex nor do I care that she’s pregnant.  What I care about is her mother and the Republicans teachings and rules regarding sex education.  These people get on their high horse acting all superior with their abstinence only teaching.  And they handcuff schools by denying them funding if they want to teach preventative sex education.

They sit around denouncing sex before marriage.  They tell you that teaching kids that they should abstain but, that if they chose to have sex they should use protection only encourages them to have sex.  They want you to believe if you just tell them not to have sex they won’t.  And now the daughter of their new poster girl is another teenage pregnancy statistic and they still want abstinence only.

They have a huge glaring example of the fact that abstinence only teaching doesn’t work.  Yet, they just want to continue acting like kids don’t have sex and put them at risk.  They want to put them at risk of getting pregnant and they want to put them at risk of getting a sexually transmitted decease.  That is the issue that needs to be brought to the forefront here and discussed.  And nominee Palin should have to answer for how she can continue to back that teaching and force it on the American people when it clearly doesn’t work and the proof is right next to her.