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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Don't y'all ever get tired
	Date:	9/21/2008 11:53:35 PM

Of having the same political discussion every day? Aren't any of you worried about the government needing to bail out the financial institutions? Considering where we are, it seems to me that there is more than enough blame to go around to the (do nothing, both sides of the aisle) Congress, the Republican political appointees (Treasury) and the Fed.
John McCain says that he is going to "change Washington" -- well, if he was going to be able to do that, don't you think he would have done it by now? Why does he think that he can change things from the White House with a Democratic majority Congress? And truthfully, though I favor Obama, he isn't going to change Washington either. The truth is that they all like it just the way it is -- that's one of the main reasons I'm for term limits in Congress. The fact is that both candidate will always say they are going to change this or change that, but they rarely are able to change things through the sheer force of their personalities and agendas. And I happen to agree that the democratic Congress has been a huge disappointment.

Truth is, I'm not crazy about either candidate, but I am in favor of our stopping spending money and troops in Iraq. We need to shift our focus to Afghanistan. Now that we've stopped pretending that Pakistan is our partner and ally, we can go after the bad guys in the Kyber pass. Iraq was never the home of terrorism until we made it easy for them to fight us there. It's always been Afghanistan.

I'm in favor of a domestic agenda that fixes social security, fixes health care, figures out what needs to be done about the financial systems and is willing to spend money on our infrastructure (so we don't have more bridges collapsing). If they have to raise taxes to do that, then so be it. I'd like to see some investment in America than us helping everyone else. (I'm not an isolationist, but we do still pay Israel 1.5B and Egypt, slight less, not to fight each other as a result of the Camp David Accords).

And I think Sara Palin is an idiot -- not because she is a Republican, but because the woman knows nothing about national security, domestic policy, or economics. Obama may not have experience, but when someone asks him about Russian and Putin, he doesn't respond that he can see Russia from his window as a response.