All of a sudden the excitement has vanished from the General Election since the two major party candidates have won their party's nomination. Senator McCain, a veteran with lots of experience in Congress but really not any great accomplishments to show for his service is all over the issues and has very little conviction about the state of the union. Senator Obama, a person with little experience in Congress, also has little to show for his few years as a U.S. Senator.
Both of these candidates have offered little so far to show that they grasp the problems facing the country and people. They seem to have a Bush attitude about a lack of action concerning those problems. How did the people come to choose these two men to meet the challenges that lay ahead? If this is the best we can do as a people the status quo will not change.
Every American and every candidate for President should read the book, "A Time To Fight" by Senator Jim Webb. He goes into detail concerning the state of the union and how elected officials are not meeting their obligations and responsibilities of facing and acting on our problems. The middle class, the heart of any Democracy is taking a hit because of Corporate and Political greed. This Corporate greed is running our government and the country. They control almost every facet of American life including the News Media which feeds America their ideology.
With the General Election only 4 months away the people still do not know how McCain or Obama will reverse the transfer of wealth that flows to the very wealthiest people that control our economy and every thing we do. Both candidates can't even bring themselves to embrace our country's long history of privacy provided in our constitution. They are on record as saying they will vote for the House passed version of a so called security bill (FISA) that will grant telecoms immunity for past cooperation with Bush's warrantless wiretapping of the people's phone messages, emails and other private communications. It would also give Bush and his cohorts immunity, all to be retroactive.
Elected officials, especially Presidents need to get out of bed with Corporate America and take our country back for the people. If McCain and Obama are the brightest at this time in our country's need, we are in serious trouble. In the next few months people who supported McCain and Obama in the primaries will be backing off those two candidates and their reasons will go something like this. This is not the same person I supported during the primaries; or He changed his position on this or that, and so on.
Both had records to run on and both offered little in the way of change and how they would deal with the problems the country faces. And now during the General Election they are running true to form. The majority of people who cast their votes during the primaries bought their sales pitch and the country will have to live with the results.
True American leadership, one that recognizes America is only strong politically, economically and militarily when the people's need are met, is truly lacking from these two candidates. Worse of all, they are silent as to how they will address the great disparity between the wealthy and every one else. There is no democracy without a middle class.
