Comments on the Presidential Debate

The best line of the debate was by John McCain, who in response to Obama’s repeated accusation of four more years of the Bush policies stated: “I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush you should have run four years ago.”

I don’t believe John McCain has ever stated that he intends to stick with the economic policies of President Bush. I do believe that our economy is in serious trouble and it will be quite some time before we have another economic boom. But I question anyone who puts all of the blame for this on President Bush. Many of the policies that have contributed to the state of our economy today were passed by Democratic Presidents and a democratically controlled congress. No President can act alone. Policies, budgets and spending must have the support of Congress to pass. Both parties are at fault and both candidates recognize there needs to be a change.

A notable comment by Barak Obama was: “We can’t drill our way out of the problem” when discussing our energy policy and drilling offshore. We use 25% of the worlds’ oil but only have 3% within our borders. We do need to implement alternative technologies.

The most noteable Fruedian slip was by McCain, who called Obama “Senator Government” in a flustered statement surrounding Obama’s beliefs in bigger government.