LET'S TALK POLITICS! Presidential Debate, September 26 2008
I love my man Obama--DON'T GET ME WRONG. But I would love for these guys, who are obviously incredibly intelligent, charismatic men, to take a stand on a single side of an issue. This endless dissembling is so frustrating--no one wants to tie themselves to a position, lest endless soundbiting chain them to it forever. Is it so wrong to change your position? Is changing your mind such an awful thing for a leader to do, especially a POLITICAL leader, doubly especially a political leader who must build consensus, make compromises, and work to get anything done?It's not as if these formative economic plans that McCain and Obama refer to are just going to magically be enacted when they're president--they're going to have to push and wheedle and whine them through Congress, and they will be fundamentally different on the other side of that process. After all, they'll have to contend with 535 other people, all of whom are similarly terrified of being tied forever to a mistep. Not to mention allegiances to money, influence, etc., which must surely weigh on their decision-making process. It must be hard.
Before I forget: that episode of "Charlotte Talks" I was part of is up in the WFAE archives, if you'd like to listen to me talk about politics. I'm the one that keeps bringing up race, affirmative action, and other issues GUARANTEED to result in foot-in-mouth disease.