Shaun and I listened to the debate last night on the way to drive the kids to their mom’s for the weekend.
\nThere is a benefit of listening to the debates over watching them. I’m easily distracted by so many other things if you stick me in front of the t.v with two people that want to just talk shit about each other for a good hour or more. More than likely I would have gotten up and walked out and washed the dishes. Yeah, okay I wouldn’t have done the dishes, but I would have gone in the other room and watched something else.<\/p>\n
I was stuck in the car and I had to listen.<\/p>\n
I’m not the brightest person when it comes to politics. I don’t keep track on how many times a candidate voted for tax increases and all that. I watch the person speak, I listen to what others have to say about them, I see what he stands for.
\nThis year seems to be a bit different for me though because it seems like everyone, not just my dad and Bryan, has a say about each person and they have so much passion in the way they speak about it. Each side is starting to sound like it’s the end of the world if the other side wins. It’s getting a bit harder to decide which one I like by what they stand for because each side is saying,
\n“He stands for this, but he did this!”<\/p>\n
I had to actually listen to the candidates speak for more than five minutes…and it had to be them and not the people who portray them on Saturday Night Live.
\nWell, if I was undecided last night on who I thought should run our country, I am no longer undecided.<\/p>\n
Let me remind you of what I said, “I am not the brightest person when it comes to politics.” I am though, a person who can see the bullshit that people try to fling when they are speaking. If I can sit there and say, “Whoa…he is completely avoiding that question, whoa! why didn’t he answer that? What does that have to do with anything that was asked?” then any politically minded person with some sort of IQ has to be able to see it too.<\/p>\n
I thought both speakers did a good job with the debate, I really did. I had to laugh when Bush said, “that comment almost made me frown.” or something like that. I guess not watching it on TV made it funny to listen to. It also made a person really listen to WHAT they were saying…and what they WERE NOT saying.<\/p>\n
So thanks for the emails pulling this way and the emails tugging that way…I have made up my mind and I am comfortable now with the choice I am going to make.<\/p>\n