Roo Pooh

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

I watched the debate, and I do not even remember too much of it. This is the reason in class that I was against watching the debate. I do not like to watch “roo pooh.” What is roo pooh? Roo pooh is any trifling mess. Examples of roo pooh are The Maury Show, The O’Reilly Factor, any reality show on VH1 or MTV, a presidential debate. There is no reason for a debate but for someone to get some money off of it, and to see who the best debater is. What does it mean to be a good debater? It means you can beat someone in an argument. It doesn’t show anything about how this person is going to handle the job of president. It shows that the person can win a gold painted plastic trophy for a high school debate team.

The only thing Obama and McCain tried to do in the debate is make each other look bad. That’s what it looked like to me. All I heard was “because of my opponents policy, this is going to happen, then this is going to happen, then the middle class is going to be hit hard, then humpty dumpty is going to fall of the wall, then Oprah is going to start smoking crack, then Hitler is going to come back from the dead, then Brad & Angelina won’t adopt anymore colored babies, all because of my opponents policy.” It was a lot of slippery slope to me from what I can remember. The topics didn’t matter; it was more of a competition of “my policy is better than your policy.”

The only thing I can really remember is this one part when they were talking about foreign policy with Iran. Obama was talking about something about how he is going to sit down with Iran and talk things over, blah blah blah. Then McCain said something like “So Iran is going to tell us they are going to nuke Israel, and we are going to say ‘No you are not’.” I am on Obama’s side when it comes to foreign policy in the Middle East. I think we need negotiation, and less strife. McCain looks like he is just more prone to start some trouble. I guess he thinks the Iranian government will not listen to what we have to say (and they may not), but it’s better to try to solve a problem as peacefully as possible.

Another thing that I can remember they argued about was taxes. McCain said if we lower taxes for business owners, more businesses will be able to start up, creating more jobs for people, and low taxes on businesses is why Ireland is doing so well, blah blah blah. Obama talked about how McCain wants to cut taxes for the already rich, blah blah blah. McCain said Obama’s policies will raise taxes and it will affect the middle class, blah blah blah. Obama talked about how his plans will not raise taxes on the middle class, and how the wealthy should be taxed more, blah blah blah. Me personally, I think taxes should be raised; so I think they are both wrong.

That’s all I got on the debate. Until the next blog…. (hopefully it’s better than this one)