twomartinilunch Commented on The Whole Debate in 90 words by Jim Sleeper

2008-10-16T16:25:18Z

i too felt the debate was a waste of my time.
so mush so that i actually walked in and out of the room doing chores, loading the dishwasher etc.
the problem as i see it is that we lack true leadership potential in our political candidates. no one is willing to voice the true sacrifices that we will have to make in this country to get back on firm footing if we can at all. i have a son that is a senior at yale and before he matriculated there had to make some momentous decisions. he actually was accepted at harvard and princeton and we visited those schools as well before he decided. i remember sitting on the princeton campus on a lovely spring day reading some kind of course catalog. one of the majors was financial engineering. does that sound as ludicrous to you as it does to me? financial engineering. financial engineering. financial engineering. it sounds like an oxymoron. i think it truly reflects the zeitgeist of our times - just keep saying it over and over and over and everything will be okay. we can engineer our way out of the clusterfuck we have become and it was apparent to me as both of the candidates attempted to answer questions. and scheiffer was a disaster. no one articulated the awful choices that we are going to have to make. people in the audience would throw rotten eggs at them. we really can't have our cake and eat it too, but that is what politicians want us to believe. if we just close our eyes, click our ruby reds together we can do it. we can do it!!

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twomartinilunch Commented on The Whole Debate in 90 words by Jim Sleeper