Another night when my best intentions were to just go to bed and “let the sleeping dog lie.” Boy that saying brings alot of thoughts instantaneously to my mind. I listened to debate #2 in the car (well, part of it anyway) and I just have a few comments. First of all, I totally realize that Obama will have his hands full, almost beyond the imaginable, should he prevail on November 4th. Things are getting so bad that I can almost envision the scenario where he might want to lose, because the next president will inherit an unbelievable mess. I almost get the feeling that McCain would just go on acting as if nothing was wrong. There is no guarantee that Obama is going to be able to turn things around. I believe that one thing Bush has accomplished is to put America in a position where whatever lies ahead, it will be drastically different than what we’re used to. I’m just wondering if the republican attack dogs will blame the next four years on Obama or Clinton. And I’m wondering if we are really ready for “real change” because I believe “real change” is on the way whether we like it or not.

I just had to mention a couple of things regarding to debate #2 that I heard tonight (when I got home I watched a couple minutes of punditry, and of course the republican pundit thought McCain had won and the democratic pundit naturally thought Obama had won. That being said (of course in the 40 minutes I listened to, Obama seemed easily the winner – I was saying things like I can’t believe he said that to some of McCain’s comments), one thing McCain said that was unbelievable to me – and I’ll be very curious as to how it is picked up, if at all, during the post debate days by the so-called national media. I’m sure I heard McCain refer to Obama as “that one.” In the first debate he wouldn’t even look at Obama, and there are reports that in the senate he refuses to shake Obama’s hand. This is coming from a man who voted multiple times against a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. It’s almost to me like McCain is saying “I can’t believe I’m losing this election to a N#@%*$! “That one” – if I heard him right, well if the American people don’t get the message from that – I don’t know what it will take. Maybe if McCain calls Obama “boy” during the next debate people will understand where this man is coming from. Ughhhh!!!!!!

Additionally, McCain has this condescending laugh and giggle when he responds to challenges from Obama that is even worse on the radio when you can’t see him. I can’t remember the exact topic, but there was a point in the debate where Obama clearly “stretched” the rules to respond to charges about Obama’s tax proposals by McCain (charges that have been debunked multiple times, but McCain continues to make them) and McCain responded something like “(giggle, giggle)I’ll answer your question (clearly trying to “slam” Obama for using an unrelated question to rebut McCain) and then he goes off on a Palin like tangent where he talks about something that is not germane to anything – if I remember correctly he had a canned response that interjected Ronald Reagan’s name into the debate – and his response was so ridiculous that I spent about 5 minutes shouting to no one, because I was alone in the car, “I can’t believe he said that.”

I have to believe that even those people who don’t understand why they “don’t trust Obama” are thinking they’re going to have to give trusting him a shot, because McCain is so bad. I honestly thought I’d never live long enough to see a politician that was worse than Bush/Cheney (take your pick) – but McCain makes Bush look like a statesman. If McCain wins even one state in November, the people of that state need to have their heads examined. As I’ve said before in other posts, we need the republican party. But Bush/Cheney in cohoots with Limbaugh, Gingrich, Hannity, et al were enough to threaten extinction for republicans (and really, for all of us too) – and McCain is like the icing on the cake. It could take them a couple of generations to recover from this. I’ve listened to some republicans from the bloc in the house who voted against the “bail out” bill and some of them sound like true conservatives and I admire them for “bucking” their leadership – so there is hope to keep a two party system where there are legitimate checks and balances. But the Bush/Cheney/McCain/Limbaugh/Hannity crew are one bad, selfish idea after another. I keep trying to listen to their point of view, and I’m really getting tired of saying over and over again, “I can’t believe he said that!”