It should be noted and a grave concern for all Americans that the DOW sank today falling below 10,000 for the first time since 2004. So whatever scare-tactic Sarah Palin used this past weekend telling those gathered that Obama “palled around with a domestic terrorist” should and must fall flat on its face as Americans are hit by a financial bomb that will affect each and everyone of us.
A few weeks ago, John McCain said of the economy that it was “fundamentally strong” and reading this report, I am left to ask: Is this the man we need leading the country come November 4th? This personal terrorism we are all feeling is one of his own making since he and Gramm set the stage for it and I cannot stress that enough. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, McCain!
In following these financial reports, I for one am terrified beyond belief as I suppose many others are and what we do not need is an erratic man in McCain leading this country in a time of financial disaster. It was reported on Politico.com that he takes weekends off. I am going to be bold enough to ask if this campaigning is taking a toll on him given his age which is 72? It is no wonder why he must rely on his pit bull with lipstick and heels to launch an attack on Barack Obama. One must also call into question his temperament where he has lashed out at some. Do we really need that at a time of crisis?
I have seen personally how campaigns can tire a candidate out on the local level and these are candidates that are far younger than McCain.
Now it has been reported that Sarah Palin has even brought into the mix while Americans are suffering Obama’s past as it pertains to Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. To those who read this, all must say to the McCain/Palin ticket, not this time. We will not pay attention to your mudslinging as we face a financial disaster. A disaster brought upon by men like John McCain and Phil Gramm. I will not even delve into what she is saying of Wright since we have more important concerns to worry about. To Sarah Palin, shut-up because you are offering no solutions to help Americans only fear and hate. It is about time that Americans pull together and reject the McCain/Palin ticket.
Palin is not as ignorant as was shown in past interviews with Katie Couric, but is being used as the Republican attack dog. Well it is about time that Americans attack back at this messenger who gives us little in our time of crisis.
What should concern everyone whether or not you live in a red state or blue state is this, "The markets have come to the sobering realization that the Bush administration's $700 billion rescue plan won't work quickly to unfreeze the credit markets, and that many banks are still having difficulty gaining access to cash." While economics is out of my league in fully understanding it, all that I do know is that we currently have a Republican administration and I cannot understand why any American would vote in yet another. Not this time America!
On a separate but equally terrifying issue which is health-care, Paul Krugman’s wrote an Op-Ed piece comparing the McCain health-care plan as opposed to the Obama one titled, Health Care Destruction and it is the last sentence that absolutely petrified me when he stated of the McCain one, “the McCain plan would do for health care what deregulation has done for banking. And I’m terrified.” If Paul Krugman who is seen by many as being a calm man as he has been interviewed numerous times on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, is terrified: Americans must sound the alarm of this McCain disaster which looms on the horizon.
I want all seniors where ever they live to pay attention to this, "Conservative Republicans still hate Medicare, and would kill it if they could — in fact, they tried to gut it during the Clinton years (that’s what the 1995 shutdown of the government was all about). But so far they haven’t been able to pull that off." This is exactly what I fear happening to all of us should McCain and Palin prevail.
As Americans who continue to go without health insurance which is also terrorizing, this is what Krugman wrote of the McCain health care package, "Several recent nonpartisan studies estimate that under the McCain plan around 20 million Americans currently covered by their employers would lose their health insurance." Add that 20 million to the present 47 million who are without health insurance and you get a whopping 67 million. That is slightly over half of the voting electorate.
In these dire times where I do feel Americans will need health care to deal with any number of illnesses which are stress-related, this is what Krugman wrote of the Obama plan, "Barack Obama offers incremental reform: regulation of insurers to prevent discrimination against the less healthy, subsidies to help lower-income families buy insurance, and public insurance plans that compete with the private sector. His plan falls short of universal coverage, but it would sharply reduce the number of uninsured."
Isn't this more important to focus in on than Ayers and Wright? I am asking all of my readers to turn away from a ticket that offers no solutions, but adds more stress to all of us who feel we are at the breaking point. The time of polarization must end now if we are to survive as a country and whatever doubts one has concerning Senator Barack Obama one must ask: What leadership has McCain given all of us during this time of crisis? Absolutely none. He has only added fear to a petrified electorate.
In a letter to the NY Times in reaction to Krugman’s article, I wrote at the end of it, “we as Americans need to be led by a President Obama to steer us out of this darkened storm.” At least with a President Obama, I would feel safe. Safer than I have felt in all of these past eight years.
Author’s email address, xmjmac@optonline.net
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