Right And Wrong

First, let me say, I haven't seen today's developments yet, but I want to talk about what happened yesterday. This is my impression of what happened yesterday.

John McCain announced that he would suspend his campaign so that he could go to work in the Senate on some sort of better plan on the proposed bailout, and challenged Obama to do the same. As far as saying, hey something big is going on and we are sitting US Senators, and therefore we need to get to work, he was 100% right on. It is the job that we are currently paying them for, and so they need to get to work. And of course, that goes for Biden too. The only problem is that he then said that he was going to stop running campaign adds and cancel fundraisers, and wanted to put off the debate. Now, obviously, if he's on the floor of the US Senate, he can't appear anywhere, but Palin still can, and his staff can still do some things, and there's no reason why he can't still run ads and such. And the debate has been planned for so long that it's not right to put it off, and he can easily fly to the debate and get back to the Senate Saturday morning if needed. Basically, we have a great idea that has been pushed over the top.

On the other hand we have Obama saying, no, I'm not going, A President needs to be able to do two things at once. But he's not doing two things at once, he's running for President, and that's it, he's not going to work in the Senate. That's not multitasking, that's naked ambition at the expense of all else. At least, that's how I see it, and I'm an expert on my opinion. He and Biden are also sitting US Senators, and need to get to work at the jobs that they are currently being paid for.

On the same token, if there were some big emergency in Alaska, I would fully expect that Gov. Palin would go there to deal with it.

This bailout is still a terrible idea, and I fear that it will pass, but let's keep writing and calling our Senators and Representatives and even the President, and ask them not to do this to us.