"Dave" wrote in message
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:19:48 -0600, "Charles Momsen"

said:

Many commented that Gwen Ifill was fair, balanced, even handed and honest
through out the debate.

Year, right. Like when she said "Care to defend Senator McCain's health
plan"?

I might allow as how she tried to be balanced, but simply failed.

Dave, many did make that comment but I don't necessarily agree with it.
Unfortunately I missed the debate, as I had something more important to do,
I had to spray the cat for fleas even though it never had fleas and I don't
have a cat.

The last debate I saw was Ronald Reagan (no foreign policy experience)
debating Jimmy Carter (foreign policy experience) and turned him into a
laughing stock (16% mortgage interest rates at the time). I liked to listen
to Reagan's speeches too they were very good and still listen to them today.
Remember when real men ran for president?

Watching politics today and expecting something real and serious (meaning
actual thought based upon principle) is akin to negotiating with muslim
terrorists and expecting them to acknowledge and even respect your way of
life. It's really all a ghoulish show bringing out the best people have to
offer, which isn't much.

Sarah Palin is the only real, uncorrupted person in the whole show and she's
regarded as the freak (remember the Twilight Zone episode?). Unfortunately,
it appears she doesn't speak from a philosophical basis of much depth and
that you don't acquire on the job. Her spirit and attitude can only carry
her so far and faith will not guide anyone through a crisis requiring
decisions except to lead them to make the same mistakes over and over again
(haven't we seen that before?).

It's all so sad, so very sad and even sadder is that people take it
seriously with the belief that things will get better if candidate x or y is
elected and get all worked up over it. The real candidates come up once or
twice a century, the rest are just placeholders.

I went to see Obama speak and I'll never forget this one. He stood up there
and said we're pulling right out of Iraq, people cheered saying to each
other "War is wrong" ,etc. The next sentence he said he was going to put
more troops in Afghanistan, invade Pakistan and the same people cheered even
louder. To this day I wonder if he had read one of Hitler's speeches aloud
with minor alterations if the fervor would have been any less. Useful
idiots, all of them.