Q: Are we there yet? A: I said yes if only you had paid attention.

The following soap-box rant was in response to this post.

I think your view is overwhelming pessimistic for the president-elect. Both candidates had made their views what they would have enacted. You could have viewed their stance on major issues that ran the gamut of education to the war in Iraq on their websites (McCain and Obama).


I do not agree with you on the concept that the candidates were sidestepping major issues. Both candidates, along with the American public, are fully aware of the developing financial crisis. Our fears have been echoed in our sinking retirement plans and the reductio ad absurdum belief that we’ll be soon dwelling in hoovervilles. The financial issue is the primary problem the public is facing, not the distant and unjustified war in Iraq.


Could you please quantify who you believe is “qualified” in the role of president? You’ve stated that you disliked both candidates, but failed to elaborate on what traits define a good president. You had also made the claim that previous presidents only know how to run the county and I'm of the belief that this does not qualify or give merit to our current commander-in-chief based on the examples of the botched Katrina disaster and the baseless Iraq war.


This election is historic on many levels by just looking at the context of our current situation: We’re currently engaged in costly wars on two fronts. The United States is in a major financial crisis. Unemployment rates are the highest they’ve been in 14 years, and to the rest of the world the ideal of America had distorted from the protector to the bully. Barack Obama will be the first black president in an age that people still have recent memories of the civil rights movement. I believe that's enough to deem it historic. It’s refreshing to think that someone has thoughts on getting us out of this ever-deepening hole, instead of using a “dig-deeper” approach.