Thoughts on the Convention Speeches
I watched most of the republican convention speeches, and although they lacked the vibrancy and carbonation of the democratic speakers, I must say that they were well written and nicely delivered, especially Sarah Palins speech. As I listened to Palin and MCain speak about what they intend to do for the country I found myself wishing that things could just be as they appear to be. Unfortunately, with politicians that is rarely the case.
The republicans speak in code. The sound bites sound great, but the truth behind the sound bites are a different story. When they speak of less government in our lives, that is code for deregulating large industry. When they speak of school choice, that is code for public support of Christian schools. They say that the democrats want to raise your taxes but fail to mention those tax raises only apply if you make over $250,000 a year. They talk about tax and spend liberals but fail to mention that their policy has been one of barrow and spend which has gotten us into this nine trillion dollar national debt. They talk about winning the war but fail to say how you win a war against a country that never attacked you, a country that we invaded. They talk about the democrats wanting to inflate government when Bush and the republican congress gave us the biggest most over inflated government in our history. They talk about cutting ear marks when it was the republican congress under George Bush that took pork barrel spending to heights never seen before.
Sarah Palin says she is pro life but how can you be pro life when you promote the slaughter of wolves and bears. Sarah is for teaching creationism along with evolution in public schools but isn't that about like teaching astrology along with astronomy, numerology along with mathematic, or alchemy along with science? Does Sarah Palin even believe in evolution?
John McCain says he wants to bring change to Washington and that's great, however, John is going to have some explaining to do about his voting record. He has separated himself from the status quo a couple of times, however, I believe that most of his voting record will show that he has pretty much been in lock step with the same status quo that has gotten us into many of the problems we are dealing with today. I hope that Barak calls him out on this during the debates.
The democrats employ their fair share of sound bites that are meant to distort the truth. Barak and Biden both will have some explaining to do about their voting records as well. Myself, I would like to see all the facts laid out on the table. Let the American people have the opportunity to know who the candidates really are and what they really stand for. But most of all, lets have a fair election. No more Karl Rove tricks that were employed in the last election. John Kerry won that election fair and square, but that's another blog.