Say it aint so, Joe

In the Vice Presidential debate Sarah Palin lived to see a another day. She was beginning to be an embarrassment to the Mccain camp in the recent weeks, but regained her confidence at the debate. She accomplished reassuring the Republican base that she can articulate sound arguments. She ramped up her folksy charm and delivered one liners like, "say it ain't so, Joe" which is sure to reclaim the hearts of the people who liked her for her relatability. The bar was set so low for how she would perform, she easily surpassed expectations. However, as the Vice Presidential candidate she failed to do what her job is as the "attack dog" of the campaign. What her arguments should have focused on is making Obama look like a risky choice. She failed to do that and therefore did not help the Mccain ticket with any undecided voters. What she achieved was damage control, she fixed the mess she had made. She did not help the ticket but merely reassured voters who would vote for Mccain, despite a horrendous VP choice. She was charming and witty at times but lacked focus and deep understanding of the issues. Most of the time she didn't answer the question that was given. She would bounce back and forth between being folksy and feisty and looking into the camera and reciting her talking points. Now, this is a huge improvement, she was able to string sentences together in mostly coherent arguments unlike her previous interviews. However, she failed to lay out clear plans for Iraq, heath care, and what her ticket would do to help the middle class. Joe Biden repeatedly pointed out that Mccain's plans give tax breaks to the wealthy and to the big corporations and Palin had little to say because she knows full well their policies are the same as George Bush. I really liked Biden's one liner in reference to Mccain's health care plan by saying, "it's the ultimate bridge to nowhere".

Palin kept saying to Biden that his campaign was all about looking in the past, instead of looking to the future. The problem with that is that Mccain/Palin policies want to bring the same policies of last 8 years and try and bring it into our future. We cannot allow this! John Mccain's policy's are the exact same as Bush's, the only difference is the package it comes in. If you put lipstick on a pig it is still a pig. There is a famous saying, "those who don't look to the past are doomed to repeat it" and this is exactly what we need to do with Mccain/Palin. Of course, she doesn't want us to look to the past because what will see there is more of the same. We need to look at the last 8 years and recognize that the failed policies of the Bush administration should not be able to continue for the next 4 years! There is no difference between them, Mccain and Palin are more of the same.