Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The final debate and Einstein's wisdom

Well folks, it's finally over. The 49th presidential debate ended just over an hour ago, and surprise, surprise, the pundits pontificated that McCain did just wonderfully, and if he had this type of performance in the other two debates (both of which they, at the time, called a draw), this would be a totally different race. This analysis again, has been roundly proven a fraud by (gasp!) actual undecided voters. Here's the link to one of the polls:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/15/politics/horserace/entry4525171.shtml
Never mind that if you are actually still an undecided voter you are an absolute moron--the point is that the poll is at least, hypothetically speaking, unbiased. So again, unless you are going to Keith Olbermann or Jon Stewart for your news, you are not getting the truth, but rather, a careful tightrope walk intended not to scare away conservative viewers or precious corporate sponsors.
The honest, truthful analysis of the debate is simply, as Eugene Robinson, an MSNBC political correspondent and writer for the Washington Post that voters heard in this debate the same thing that they have always heard from recent Republican candidates: I want to cut taxes (for the rich), I want to reduce the size of government, specifically spending (let's see: Reagan, Bush, W...), and you shouldn't vote for my opponent because he has character issues (in their latest charade, he's a terrorist--oooohhhh, spooky, just in time for Halloween), is going to raise your taxes (even though this one has said specifically, time and time again, that he won't), and doesn't have enough experience (wait a second--you're a really old man and you chose "hockey mom" and religious extremist Sarah Palin to be your vice president?).
I would love to skewer that platform again, but for your sake I won't. The Republican economic and governmental philosophy has been put into play and IT HAS FAILED. It essentially boils down to how Albert Einstein famously defined insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. That is clear to pretty much everyone who has been even mildly paying attention to what is going on in the world lately and does not currently have Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, or some other paid character assassin screaming in the background of their living rooms right now. It's like that line W once butchered: fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me...right?

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