Home and Sick

I have been home sick for a couple of days so I have watched more tv than usual. I need to rant just a bit.


1. The campaign for president is not that negative or mean or either side. The media and the Democrats whining about it a distraction and a way to try to use public shame to cover up concerns by either party. Stop the whining and just make your point.

2. The campaign is petty. I don't care that the RNC spent 150,000 on wardrobe, make over, etc for the Pallen family for the campaign trip. Its not difference than 2 million dollars of advertising by Obama.... Again another distraction. Argue the points not the wardrobe.

3. There is a profound difference between the Obama and McCain tickets. The difference is not so much economic but philosophical and social. The congress has to come along and make all the economics work out. But the power of the presidency will have more to do with how Americans view the world and how our social relationships are governed. Everyone wants to reduce the impact to the individual. The greatest impact will be broad and societal more than individual. Obama will move us more toward what is currently the social liberal agenda items. He will want to always play nice and we will become more and more like France. McCain, while hardly a social conservative, will steer towards a more independent and dominant America - much more like England historically. So where do you want to go?

As for me... God please don't send us to France.