Initially, I was a little ticked off at the attacks from Giuliani and Palin the other night, especially the digs against Obama as a "community organizer." (What, we don't want community service? Republicans don't want average citizens involved in fixing the problems in their communities? Just leave the problems for the government to fix? That isn't what Republicans used to believe.)
On the other hand, the target of those attacks doesn't seem to be bothered:
Here's what I think: Obama is a diplomat, a peacemaker. His speeches tend to be about bringing people together to fix the nation's problems. McCain and Palin are self-proclaimed "bulldogs with lipstick." They're combative and aggressive, two attributes that tend to be unhelpful in problem solving.
I also think that the Republicans had a clean shot at making the country better, and they blew it. We've had 8 years of Bush, 6 of which had a Republican House and Senate. When the "small government" Republicans had the reins, they took the budget from a surplus to a deficit and they started a new multi-billion dollar prescription drug program. They embroiled us in a war that's tripled the cost of oil and cost the country billions of dollars (let alone the untold cost in human lives) on manufactured pretenses. For all their bluster about following terrorists to the gates of hell, we still don't have Osama bin Laden. The Republican government is so badly run that even McCain is calling for change.
Obama's plans look better to me than McCain's plans. His proposed budget lowers taxes for all but the most rich, giving the biggest tax breaks to the poor who need them most. Our country needs universal health insurance. We need to carefully withdraw from Iraq. We need to fund the science and education programs that the Republicans have neglected.
So, I'm voting for Obama this time around. Hope you will too.
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