We completely missed the VP debate while in the hospital since I had more pressing issues on my mind at the time. Politics is really depressing. It’s amazing that there are only two choices. One size, or two in this case, does not fit all. So nothing is perfect and you’re really left with choosing the lesser of two evils. That can be a tough decision. There are stands on the issues which should be the most important part of your decision to ally with one party or another, but in a campaign, they all twist the facts. But what you need to look for are which facts they do, for what purpose and effect, and who is making an honest mistake versus who is intentionally being deceitful.
Going to the source to see what these parties stood for in their own words, I took a look at the Republican and Democratic platforms and was curious about how often each mentioned the other. Republicans mentioned Democrats 26 times and Democrats mentioned Republicans 6 times. You understand, these documents are supposed to explain to me what the platform of the party who authored it is. The more you talk about the “other” party, the more it looks like you can’t rest on your own platform.
Some other quick keyword searches netted these results:
| Keyword | Republican | Democrat |
|---|---|---|
| pray | 3 | 1 |
| God | 2 | 1 |
| terrorist | 6 | 17 |
| McCain | 1 | 0 |
| Obama | 0 | 10 |
| Iraq | 7 | 28 |
| Bush | 1 | 8 |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 13 |
| climate change | 13 | 16 |
| united nations | 1 | 5 |
| taxes | 17 | 8 |
| gun | 5 | 2 |
| religion | 4 | 2 |
| abortion | 15 | 2 |
| weapons | 7 | 42 |
| tax and spend | 1 | 0 |
| american dream | 1 | 7 |
| abstinence | 3 | 0 |
| marriage | 15 | 1 |
| homosexual | 1 | 0 |
| world | 43 | 75 |
| attack | 10 | 6 |
| oil | 9 | 17 |
| Africa | 7 | 17 |
| Asia | 4 | 14 |
| China | 12 | 8 |
| environmental | 17 | 9 |
| nuclear power | 6 | 2 |
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Human greed already won the election and ruined the world. Nothing Obama or McCain can really do about it now.
Comment by Shari — 2008.10.06 @ 5:28 am
Well, I’m sorry– that was really negative of me. Maybe some new rules can come into effect now that the country has been bankrupted. Does that sound better?
Comment by Shari — 2008.10.06 @ 5:29 am