Keep Digging!

The media keeps on diggin’ in an effort to find as much dirt as possible on McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin.  Each word from her acceptance speech is scrutinized by the media.

The latest?

Palin’s statement that she placed the state jet used by former Alaskan Governor Murkowski on Ebay is now being vetted by the media.  Apparently, the plane didn’t sell on Ebay.  Rather, it sold via an aviation broker for less than it’s original purchase price.

Who cares?  The fact is that Governor Palin eliminated a unnecessary state expense that she believed was unjustly dropped in the laps of Alaskan taxpayers.

What’s more important– how the plane was sold, or the fact that is was sold?

Do We Want to Know That Much?

Governor Sarah Palin’s unanticipated entry into this manufactured Presidential   Election only adds more fuel to a fire that needs to be stomped out.

The attacks on Governor Palin’s daughter confirm the intensity of this obnoxious power struggle between democrats and republicans.  As we’ve come to expect, it’s getting nastier everyday and turning American’s off.

Keep in mind, this commercial-free garbage is being televised to the world via television and the internet.

Are the candidates providing us with solutions to serious issues like the multi-trillion dollar debt that strangles our nation; the enormous amount of reckless spending that our legislators continue to approve by stealth; or, how about the erosion of our liberty and privacy?

No, you won’t hear that from this “high school class president-level” of discourse.

Both parties are certainly responsible for the mess that faces our country, and despite their promises, once elected they’ll do nothing to change our situation, unless the next president has the power to persuade congress.

Recent history tells us that congress is now controlled by lobbyists fueled by powerful special interest organizations.  It’s so much easier for an elected representative to take their money, and vote as directed in order to perpetuate membership in these political machines and personal power.

What Do You Know About Joe Biden?

Senator Joe Biden has been selected as the vice-presidential running mate for soon-to-be Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Born in 1942, Biden is a Delaware Senator and has held that position in government for six terms.  As Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Biden enter the presidential race in both 1988 and 2008.

Although blessed with success, Biden’s life hasn’t been always pleasant.

In 1972, when first elected to the Senate, his first wife Neilia, and infant daughter, were tragically killed in an auto accident.  His two young sons were also seriously injured in the accident, but fully recovered.

His accomplishments as a Senator include the creation of a Drug Czar, legislation designed to protect those affected by domestic violence, and college aid and loan programs that allow families to deduct up to $10,000 on their tax returns for higher education expense.

Biden has a comprehensive foreign policy background as well.  During the Clinton administration, Biden led the charge to temper hostilities in the Balkans by traveling to the region.  He gained national attention when labeling Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic as a “war ciminal”, and convincing President Clinton to institute air strikes in that region in response to human rights violations.

He supported the war in Iraq and is on record calling for a larger force of troops, international participation in the conflict, and policies that federalize Iraq allowing the Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis to co-exist.

Biden brings strong foreign policy experience to Obama’s campaign, which is widely recognized and attacked as being weak.