I should preface this post with saying that I really don’t think Obama or McCain is qualified enough to run this country in the direction it needs to go. I probably won’t vote for several reasons. I feel no need to throw my support against a mediocre choice ( and I have felt this way for every election), and I will be away during the election and I don’t really think they count the absentee ballots.
I feel disheartend that the America people choose a president the way they do and I feel even more disheartened that it has become a debate of who has the flashier campaign and the money to pour into advertising.
I actually was nervous for Sarah Pallin last night because of all the negative press that she received. I actually was not a Pallin supporter and I actually believed that McCain really had lost it when he picked her and it was an obvious market ploy. However no one deserves to have to get up in front of a captive audience and be ridiculed. Reporters and news programs were ripping her to shreds before she even got up there to say anything. No one’s family should have to go through that regardless of what you believe. If the tables were turned and all the negative press was geared toward OBAMA then people would cry foul and prejudice, racism, etc. No one has even dared and trust me Obama had many blunders in his own debate too.
But because Sarah Pallin is a woman and happens to be a white conservative she is supposed to not cry foul at the negative press that she has been receiving where news stations will edit clips to portray her as what they want her to be.
Getting back to the debate, I actually thought Sarah Pallin did a great job last night and held her own. People are saying she was coached, whatever it really doesn’t matter. She stood up in a time of uncertainity and was able to deliver and stood her ground. I actually thought she was more no nonsense and spoke the truth. Let me give you example:
The moderator posed the questions to Joe Biden: Do you believe in homosexual rights?
Joe Biden went on this whole rant about civil rights liberties where he actually I believed tried to convince the America public that he would actually support gay marriage if it came down to it. A move that he tried to appeal to the gay population.
Sarah Pallin answered it honestly and true to her party line.
When the moderator flatly asked Joe Biden did he approve of gay marriage, he said no he did not. He wanted you to believe one thing but when pushed he backpedaled into saying no he did not support that.
At that moment I felt that it was disheartenening for the America public who probably will be swooned by visions of a camelot ( with the historical election of Obama), and good neighborly Joe Biden as vp. Here we had someone trying to convince you that he feels otherwise when in the end will just do what he wants to do anyway.
Who speaking of…. Sarah Pallin with her five children is way more middle class than Mr. Biden who has come from a privelged family and probably lives in a nice neighborhood and has for most of his life.
Whether you support Republicans or Democrats, give support and credit when it is due. Give Sarah Pallin credit for standing up there and looking very polished and move on.
But I guess its not as newsworthy when people overcome the obstacles set forth by the media.
