Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Democrat Debates

I caught the last fifteen minutes or so of last night'S Democrat Presidential debates. It was about all I could take. The buzz in the MSM is how all the candidates attacked poor Hillary. (Playing right into her strategy of positioning herself as though she were a woman.) But I was disgusted by something totally different. Not a candidate on the podium had a single good thing to say about free markets and every candidate proposed more government to every problem posed. They took the opportunity to take cheap shots at Wal-Mart, free trade, hedge fund managers, the rich, the rich, oil companies, blah, blah, blah. They never really got around to explaining how these evil entities actually caused the problems America faces; us rubes were supposed to just take that assumption at face value.
Some gems: Kucinich: Wal-Mart is the reason we don't inspect container ships. Biden: I would shut down all imports from China, period. Edwards: [on hedge funds managers paying only capital gains tax rates on their filthy riches.] This is an example of the extraordinary corruption in the system. [without offering a scintilla of evidence.] But my favorite was from Hillary Clinton on what to do about the sorry state of math and science education in our schools, her reflexive "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" response included:

We need to really support it through nurse visitation or social work or child care. We need to do more with the pre-kindergarten program that I have proposed. In addition, though, this has to fit into an overall innovation agenda, which I have also set forth.
So look out parents, government nurses are coming to make sure your kids eat your vegetables and that you're not teaching anything homophobic while they're at it. Heck, taking them to the wrong church might be bad for your kids self-esteem as well.

But as bad as all this was, I was also struck by the banality of it all. After each candidate proposed new government program after new government program, my eyes just started to glaze over and I couldn't stop yawning. It just seemed all so tired and boring and "been there, done that" have the copy of the check I wrote to the IRS to prove it. If you need to catch some Z's, you can read it all here.

47 comments:

Dean said...

Hey B-Daddy, I started reading through the transcript while shoving a lit cigarette into my palms to stay awake and was wondering... who are these people running against? Bush?

The more these people blather about all the "failed Bush policies", the more I think he may have not been such a bad Prez afterall.

Wait... gotta run... trick or treaters at the door. Can't make it out. Is that Nurse Ratched or Nurse Hillary...?

Road Dawg said...

"Not a candidate on the podium had a single good thing to say about free markets and every candidate proposed more government to every problem posed"???????

I sincerely hope you are only feigning surprize at this. This has been the mantra for as long as I can remember.

Polarize and repeat the mantra, out populate your opponant.

Hopefuly the pedulum will swing the other way, but we are a nation of sheep for the most part.

Doesn't this sound vaguely familiar of the radicall muslim community? It's all Isreal and America's fault.

Sincerely, a slightly disjointed,
Road Dawg

paull12 said...

Typical diatribe from the Dems. Their gameplan is if it doesn't work give it to a government agency to run and it will work even worse then before. Not one of the Dem candidates, or, for that matter, the Reps candidates, seem fit to be called Mr. President. None of them have the talent nor the personna that commands respect and makes you believe they can lead this country as it should be lead.

K T Cat said...

I missed the whole debate. I've picked up the best parts from talk radio and blogs like yours.

Wouldn't it be nice if our schools taught free market economics as much as they teach diversity and how the Europeans oppressed everyone? Of course, this would require us to teach our teachers free market economics, but I can dream, can't I?

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