THESE are the ISSUES:

[amborin]

(all this from The Nation):


1. between the rich and everybody else is wider than since the 1920s. Thanx to Bush tax cuts which rethugs will continue, trade treaties run amok, unregulated Wall Street, etc....

Only Obama has solutions....only Obama cares about middle class Americans....

2. 7 million more Americans have lost their health insurance since Bush has been President

3. We are trailing virtually the entire world in addressing global warming because of Bush's policies. Drilling is only a short term fix at best. Only Obama has a real PLAN for ENERGY independence that also saves the environment.

4. Our standing around the world is lower now than it has been in the modern history of America.



The Rethugs have cleverly managed not to discuss the real issues, talk about over and over again the suffering of John McCain in the POW camp, and want that to be the major issue of this campaign.

McCain's campaign manager said the other day;


" This election is not about issues."

THEY HAVE TURNED IT INTO A CONTEST ABOUT personality.

And what they have successfully done is made politics into a soap opera, or an academy award ceremony, or a football game. "Who do you think is gonna win the Super Bowl and why? Who do you think is gonna become President and why?

How do they figure out who can win Virginia?" Rather than saying what are the problems facing America and how do we solve those problems?

They don't even choose to engage in that debate because in truth they have nothing substantive to say other than 4 more years of Bush policies which clearly have been a disaster. So then the debate becomes about –

"Was John McCain a heroic and brave person while he served in a prison camp in Vietnam?"

The answer is yes, and that should be enough for you to elect him President.

We don't have to know his views on the economy, on healthcare, on global warming, on foreign policy, that's not relevant.

It's just whether or not he was a brave person in captivity and that's all that we should know, and that's what this campaign should be about. And, I think, you know unfortunately we see this every day and they have managed to deflect attention away from real issues and make politics into a personality contest and often they do well in that approach because we don't talk about real issues and real solutions.

[amborin]

1. we are playing right into rethug hands....palin was their plan

to divert attention away from the issues

focusing on the issues makes rethugs lose

is their game plan working?

[jillan]

2. I agree but it is now silly, silly season.

It's time for one liners and good punches.....inbetween the issues.