Dow Closes Down 679 Points

Oh well, it is clearly pointless to argue about politics on this list, and more so with people like IronBalls who resort to inappropriate insults (that I am jealous of Palin? that’s just preposterous) instead of any substantive points. And we wonder why this country is in such a mess. Sad. Tragic actually. Let’s hope we can turn things around, for all our sakes, even delusional types like IronBalls.

11217,

You’ve got to be kidding.

Who gives a flying shit where Obama went to school?

Bush went to Yale and Harvard and he’s obviously a dingbat.

Life experience is far more important that what school you went too.

For that matter, I went to big name schools too, and look what a schmuck I am.

Johnny come lately here. I’m an undecided voter, so this comment doesn’t come from intense support for one candidate or the other: I think it’s simplistic and naive to think that the election of one ticket or another “could complete the utter destruction of this country,” or that the Republican Party’s economic approach has single-handedly led to the current crisis. There are too many variables involved. It’s easy to blame it all on them, and say that McCain has voted 90% of the time with “Bush,” so naturally our country will keep going downhill if he’s elected. Easy, but lacking in reality I think. Every time we have an election each party casts their differences from the other in apocalyptic terms (ie: “vote for us or you will be doomed”). Please. This whole 90% thing is also silly to me – McCain voted 90% of the time with his party. The Obama campaign wants to simplify that to mean 90% with Bush. Come on – Obama has probably voted 100% of the time with his party. Does that mean he always votes with Howard Dean? That’s unfair to say, too. I seem to remember a lot of people blaming Clinton for the bursting of the tech bubble, and even attributing the real estate bubble to him as well. I defended him then and now on these points, mainly because you can’t consider these types of issues in black and white. It’s all gray – but the campaigns don’t want you to think that way. Don’t drink the Kool Aid.

I recognize that this post has said and offered practically nothing, other than perhaps some extraneous philosophical observations about our political system. The economic issues are so complex that I’m not convinced either party has it right, or that either one won’t do what it takes to fix it if elected (like Bush is doing right now). This election may just come down to foreign affairs to me. And yes, I know the debate there too.

Even though I spend plenty of time blogging about politics (specifically Democratic Party politics) I have no interest in talking about it here. There are very few people who can ever be swayed in an argument about politics.