I'm Over It

We watched the debate last night and Biden reacted the way I had hoped that Obama would. Biden called his opponent on the lies. OK, he didn’t use the word ‘lies’. He should have. They were. The Palin answers…simply weren’t. She didn’t venture far from the safety of canned responses. And all of the usual ‘buzz words’.

I need to know; what kind of a country are we when we allow politicians of any stripe to get away with using these words in their speeches to us? Maverick? Straight-talk, Main Street, Washington Insider, Joe Six-Pack, Hockey Mom, Kitchen table, and on and on. Personally, I was insulted when either one of them used those words. Do they really think we are that stupid? Yes, I guess they do.

On the plus side, Biden did show his contempt for the ‘maverick’ term and it was high time. You cannot spend 30+ years of getting a government paycheck and be a maverick. Smoke and mirrors. And although the governor tried her best to spread the fable, she is not really your next door neighbor. She is not like you. Honest. She is the governor of Alaska and hasn’t been like you for at least two decades. Get over it.

Despite all of the rhetoric last night, we really don’t need a common man or woman in the White House. We need someone uncommon. You want common? Go to a… let’s say a hockey game; look around. Which one of the ‘common’ folks there would make a good president? Sorry, this is the 21st century and Thomas Jefferson’s yeoman farmer no longer exists. He’s as dead as Jefferson.