Debate Revisited

Now that the last presidential debate is over...how does that affect your vote? Me, personally, I think that while McCain clearly wanted to "duke it out" with Obama tonight, Obama stayed the course and took the "high road"...amazing! I really do not like either candidate, but as I am watching the debate and listening to two men bash the policies of Washington DC I could not suppress the feeling that these two men ARE PART OF THE WASHINGTON DC CROWD!!! They are bashing the same system that both of them are a part of. How can either be entrusted to change a culture that they themselves helped create? When it comes right down to it...and I can't believe that I am saying this, Obama's message rang truer with me tonight. His economic policy makes more sense (not that I think that it is a good plan, just better than McCain's). Obama's line that for every dollar in spending increases there has to be a corresponding dollar of spending cuts makes perfect sense; his message that Americans have been living above their means and that has to change makes perfect sense; however, his plans for universal health care and universal college education do not make sense. On the flip side McCain wanting to buy up "bad" mortgages and help "people stay in their homes" is a load of bunk; that is strictly a political ploy and another indication that maybe John McCain has been in Washington too long...maybe it's time to buy that membership at a nice golf club in Phoenix John...you know, RETIRE!!! This is starting to sound like I am an Obama supporter (frankly the idea of those words escaping my mouth scare the hell out of me) but tonight anyway Obama made more sense. 19 more days of deliberating before it's time to pull the lever and pick your poison America!