The Observation Deck

Okay all campaigns get negative. I remember Mayor Cain calling this the silly season. Certainly we had some negativity even in last years mayoral election. But I thought as an excercise, we might find something positive in the other candidate.

Okay, I'm for the Obama, Biden ticket.

McCain - He is easy. There are few people that can't find his honor and endurance in being a prisoner of war pretty impressive. And he came home and sought to work in the system as a senator.

Palin - I heard her speak the other day. I know her record, but I'm will ing to give her a chance on her dedication to special needs children. She spoke eloquently and convincingly about how she will learn more from Trig than he ever will from her. And how families need support with special needs children. I was very impressed.

I am impressed with McCain's ability to hook people up with beer. even if it is only Busch beer.

As any of you who know me already knows I am a Republican but I will give this a shot.

Sen. Biden: Although I disagree with his politics, I beleive that he has sereved the State of Delaware and the nation admirably in his 30-plus years in the Senate. His extensive knowledge of foregin affirs has aided his in his role is chair of the Senate Committee on Foregin Relations. Aside from the plagerism issue in the 1988 Presdential campaign, Sen. Biden has been primarily scandal-free in his public service career.

Sen. Obama: Well, he appears to be a good husband and devoted father.

No.

John McCain once spoke in Congress to save low powered FM broadcasting.

I was going to say something nice but then I got a campaign phone a few minutes ago saying that Obama has ties to a domestic terrorist so I decided that since I couldn't say something nice I wouldn't say anything at all.

The GOP vice presidential candidate has given us a lot of good laughs and Tina Fey a whole new tream of income....doncha know

Danielle Masters wrote:I was going to say something nice but then I got a campaign phone a few minutes ago saying that Obama has ties to a domestic terrorist so I decided that since I couldn't say something nice I wouldn't say anything at all.

Danielle. You are not the only one that noticed. Click Here Please

I will try however. He is making harder for him to win by spewing this crap. In the end I think we can all agree that will be a good thing.

Jim DeVito wrote:Danielle. You are not the only one that noticed. Click Here Please

I will try however. He is making harder for him to win by spewing this crap. In the end I think we can all agree that will be a good thing.

Thanks for the link. I have been getting these calls for months and they have been getting continually more negative, but this one earlier really made me mad especially after McCain's comments last night. After reading that article it appears that I am just one of the many who are a bit ticked to be polite.

Here's something... both candidates took some time out today for some comic relief at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner. McCain was downright hilarious. It's the first time I've heard someone (other than himself) laugh out loud at his punch lines in a long time.

Obama was serviceable but nowhere near as funny as McCain.

McCain's routine - Part 1, Part 2

Obama's - Part 1, Part 2

I have never disliked, let alone hated George Bush. He's not a bad guy ( his VP is a different story). He's a tragic figure. He assumed the Presidency in 2000 (Ican't say he was elected) to accomplish relatatively small bore stuff: reform social security, reform medicare, enlarge middle class.

He was thrust by 9/11 into a situation he wasn't prepared for, and his handlers (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Kristol,etc) took advantage of his inexperience to do unprecendented things to the Consttituion, our military, our standing in the world. He, and they, took advantage of a vulnerable situation to win the 2004 election.

He's done more good than most on the "left" would agree to: mostly small unnoticed stuff, like helping to further electronic medical health records and furthering the right of the mentally ill.

That's the best I can say.

John McCain's in-laws brew and distribute beer. Tomorrow morning I'm sticking a "Go Beer!" campaign sign in my front lawn. How can you argue with that? If it wasn't for his in-laws, us college students would die of dehydration.

Go Beer! '08!

My ideal candidate...

Palin's common sense
McCain's bullheaded persistence
Biden's political savy
Obama's public personna
and most of Bob Barr's political agenda

Hey Bret - It's me!


The common sense thing on Palin - she's bringing a small child to rally's where there are many people around.

The baby is too young to be exposed to all that noise and the germs.

No common sense.

Her water broke (with the new baby) when she was in another city and she hopped on a plane to get back to Alaska.

This woman truly does not have common sense.