Reply #20: They All Play Games [View All]

Each candidate has their "gimmick" that gets them attention, money and, possibly, votes. Just look across the aisle if you want to see triangulation and pandering. The only platform these goons have to offer for the future is more war and economic warefare. I'm looking ahead, not behind. I can find fault with every candidate, but that's not what I'm looking for...I want to hear their positions on the future and how they will achieve it...or if they can.

The real sad is the mess of a country we have...and whomever takes over on 1-20-09 is going to have to spend a majority of their term just cleaning up the corruption and abuses of the past 7 years. It's going to be a person who can put this country back on an even keel...restore destroyed foreign relations, address a growing economic stranglehold on the middle class, fix a health care system that's literally killing people and find a way out of a war that won't end up with our troops having to retreat. Words sound great on the stump...i'm not expecting perfection...far from it, I just want to know exactly what I'm getting...and that is a personal choice. There are gonna be a lot of tough choices to be made...I want someone who can bring change to start this country back from the abyss. Idealism is great...but it's not what's needed to clean up the messes the next president will face.