Talk about the issues

[eliza61]

Instead of putting so much time and energy on ridiculous stuff like how much some one's outfit cost or what some has been Reverand that has absolutely no power but in his 1 little church.
Why don't we spend as much time making the candidates tackle issues that are actually important.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081028/hl_hsn/medicaldebtsendingmanyoverfinancialbrink

I more interested in how to fix the crappy health system than a has been, over the hill college professor terrorist.

 

[disykat]

You know what, to some people those are the issues they want to talk about.

I am so sick of all the "stop the negativity" whining people are doing. Just don't open those threads! Good grief people - Back away from the keyboard. Some people seem to need to talk about those things and they have every right!

 

[eliza61]

Your kidding. What Sarah Palin spent on her budget is an issue. Whew, thanks that explains a lot. now I know why we are up a creek without a paddle. You're definitely right time to back away for the keyboard then....

 

[Holly]

I don't think that either candidate has a workable health care plan.

 

[disykat]

Your kidding. What Sarah Palin spent on her budget is an issue. Whew, thanks that explains a lot. now I know why we are up a creek without a paddle. You're definitely right time to back away for the keyboard then....

Talk about putting words in my mouth! I didn't say that. You did.

What I said, was people have the right to post about what they want to. The constant "stop being negative about my candidate" cries are getting old.

Have confidence in your candidate and just ignore the stuff you don't want to hear.

 

[bicker]

Why don't we spend as much time making the candidates tackle issues that are actually important.

Several of us have tried to put forward the issue-oriented messages from the Obama campaign over the last couple of days. The problem is that folks who support McCain despoil each such thread on the issues with unrelated, vicious, vacuous and/or baseless attacks on Obama, personally, rather than leaving such threads for discussions of the issue that was the subject of the thread. Many McCain supporters are apparently unable or unwilling to allow any discussion of the issues go on, perhaps because they realize that they've lost the national discussion on the issues.

Having said that, Holly has hit on a good point: Many of the things Americans want resolved either have no practicable resolution, or each of the remedies available would be major turn-offs to most Americans. It's a bit like a child at WDW complaining about waiting in queue for an attraction: The remedies are to plan ahead next time and arrive earlier, or come back later, or skip the attraction; but the solution that the child wants is to cut the line, which is not permitted.