Comments on: Sucking on a Lehman

By: Janis C

Janis C — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:37:04 +0000

I am with Noreen & Lizard. McCain/Palin is one scary ticket. “Drill baby drill” reminds me of Bush 7 years ago standing on the rubble yelling, “Lets Go get them.”

No, college chants is not what this country needs.

I am voting Obama/Biden and joining the optimism brought by this ticket and taking a pass on the negativity associated with the Republicians. All that booing at the convention and rallies. Brings me down….no wonder everybody is so gloom and doom.

By: carosgram

carosgram — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:12:35 +0000

Yes! Let’s let the Republican’s win! Let’s make them fix W’s screwing up our country! At least I think McCain will work with the Dem’s to try to actually fix both our domestic problems as well as return our foreign policy to one of honor.

By: kris

kris — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:39:15 +0000

i have always said it will be years (like maybe not in my lifetime) before we get over idiot boys 8 years in office. and i hope that the people who elected him are all happy at the horrible mess he made of this country. i have no hope that the next president can do much of anything to solve any of the problems left by this administration. mccain didn’t scare me so much until he brought palin aboard. canada is looking better all the time.

By: del

del — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:41:10 +0000

I agree that whomever is elected will likely be a one-termer. The changes and cuts the next president will need to make will be both painful and very unpopular. I’d like to think the american people will understand what needs to be done and soldier through it. Unfortunately, after having seen the housing/credit bubble and its aftermath, the 2004 election, and the shortsighted no-farther-than-next-payday outlook most people have I’m not confident of that at all. Not at all…

By: Vinegar Martinis

Vinegar Martinis — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:39:22 +0000

I’m not as optimistic as you - I don’t think this financial mess can be cleaned up in four short years - I think we’ve done at least a decade of damage and it’ll take that long to recover.

My, aren’t I just a freaking ray of sunshine today or what?

By: lizard

lizard — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:43:26 +0000

I’ve been waffling around the same idea, thinking about the war and wanting McCain to have to clean up from Idiot Boy. But I think that cleaning up Iraq won’t happen any time soon.

The financial stuff has me thinking a little more that it could be fun to see McCain win and have to clean up some of the mess. You are right that it is most likely that the next prez will be a one-term prez because everything here is going to hell in a handbasket, and the next prez is going to be left holding a bag of crap.

that said, the idea of the Supremes scares the crap out of me. And I’ve said for years that the first female president is going to be republican, so that makes me nervous, thinking it will be Sarah Palin who scares the bejeezus out of me.

By: noreen

noreen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:17:14 +0000

Except, what about the Supreme Court appointments during the next four years? I’m not sure I want the GOP to have any more of those picks. I’ve been to Alaska and know Alaska politics are scary. I just didn’t think I’d ever be directly affected. I’m scared.