Taking a break today

It's Saturday so I'm going to take a break today and spend some time with my family instead of posting any long messages. I do want to get back to going through the issue comparison on procon.org. I also do want to get on the candidates' websites and see their plans in their own words. I'll try to do that soon, but I do have more than a month. I'll get to it eventually.

Anyway, just a couple of links really quickly...

- So CNN got together five former Secretaries of State for an interview. Here is an article about it: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/19/former-secretaries-of-state-to-next-president-get-over-it-get-real-be-smart/

The interesting thing for me was this quote from the article:

It’s time to engage Iran, the Secretaries said. Drop the preconditions and the political posturing. “The whole point is you try to … deal with countries that you have problems with.” said Madeleine Albright, who tried to pursue an opening with Iran when she was in office. From across the aisle, James Baker agreed. His advice to the next president: “You ought to engage.”

EXACTLY! The Republicans keep wanting to give preconditions to talk to some other countries. McCain has said he would do this. That's ludicrous. Dialogs need to be open. That's the only way to figure out what the issues are and resolve them. Enough posturing! Talk to these people! That's what Obama wants to do.

- Here's John McCain talking about deregulating Health Care, because that's worked SO WELL for banks: http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/the_truth_will_out.html

- One final link... here's an article talking about the race factor: http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-obama-race

I personally find this very sad. It's the year 2008 and there are still people in this country who are going to judge a Presidential candidate based on stereotypes and prejudices. I would hope at this time in our country, in the 21st Century, that people could look past the color of his skin and see the depth of the man and what it is he wants to do. He's intelligent, articulate, confident, more than able to handle the job of President, and has a plan that will put this country back on the right track. If he loses this race because he is black, I think that's a very sad statement about our country. It would be shameful.

That's all for now.