Saturday October 18th, The Week In Review

Yes yes, I know that I haven't updated since Monday.  I know a lot happened, and I know that I could write about it all.  I can't give you a good reason why, but I can give you a really long blog to highlight everything.  Will it be a really long blog?  Nah, but I'll try to give it the old one-two.

Debate

Obviously the most important issue of this past week.  We had the third and final Presidential debate.  I know most of the public and pundits have already weighed in, but I still want to give my opinion on it, because no opinion is totally right, it's just a matter of what you believe in.

Who do I think won the debate?  John McCain.  Why?  Well, it's how the game was played.  John McCain came in with a fire under him, and he took shot after shot at Senator Obama.  What was Obama's strategy?  Defense.  And defense doesn't win debates.  Obama sat on his lead, and didn't try to do anything spectacular.  Also, we finally had our first (and only) "defining moment" when John McCain told the country (as well as Senator Obama, who really needed to hear it) that he was not George W. Bush.

All in all, Senator McCain came out with a strong attack, and just left Obama in the dust for the third debate.  In an election where the debates have been extremely boring (at best), debate three proved to be pretty exciting.

Joe The Plumber/Socialism

This guy has been shot to superstardom!  One short question to Obama has led to "Joe the Plumber" being mentioned during the Presidential debates, across the board Cable News Networks, and even late-night TV shows.  But why is Joe to important all of a sudden?  Becuase he brought out Obama's inner socialist.

Obama's comment to Joe involved the phrase "spread the wealth around":  Pretty much the motto of the socialist party.  Has this been exploited by the GOP?  In the word's of Sarah Palin:  You Betcha!

Is this eletion-changing?  probably not but it can change some minds.  Obviously, the wealthy don't want to see their wealth redistributed to the lower classes.  Obviously, no one wants to see their wealth redistributed to the lower classes.  The only people that want to see wealth redistributed are the lower classes, who only gain from this.

It's not fair, it shouldn't happen, I could complain for paragraphs on end about how Socialism will destroy our country, but I won't.  If Joe comes up later this week, I'll drop a post all about socialism and it's awfulness.

Everything Else

So to rattle through the rest of it.  We have our first newspaper endorsements (for both Obama and McCain), the candidates are rolling through the swing states for the home stretch, Colin Powell may endorse Obama, both candidates exchanged jokes at an exclusive dinner event, and Sarah Palin has been off the radar for 4 days now.

Peace Out, Readers.