Sincere

by Jeanne Sones

Created on: October 04, 2008   Last Updated: October 07, 2008

Of course Senator McCain was sincere in my opinion. What would be the point of staving off the campaign now at such a critical time. He didn't benefit from doing so, but the opponent surely did. Why would he open himself up for constant criticism and backlashing if he had not truly been concerned about this situation? Because much of campaigning is off-color and is negative does not mean that everything that is done is a calculated maneuver to gain momentum in the election. It is true that allot of the campaigning is calculated but it would have been very hard for a candidate to contrive this ecomony catastrophe just to score votes. Also we are talking about two candidates that are familar with Washington, that are both honorable and intelligent men, and both are savy politicians and who know what they are doing. They are expected to conduct themselves morally and expertly at all times and I feel for the most part they do. What to me is concerning is that the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi would open her mouth the way she did and stick politics into the mix and mess up everything. This was not a time to cause everything done to be undone and cause the whole bill to be re-argued again. Of course, due to this upsetting situation she caused, the troubleshooters were able to get another $100 billion added to the package and perhaps that is why that was done, I don't know. Whenever money is in question I do sometimes see alterior motives from the politicians. I believe Senator McCain has said before "country first and campaign second" and I feel he just was acting on the words he had spoken. A late night TV host ramrodded him continually on his show for not making a guest appearance on his show the evening of the calamity. He remarked that an interview with Katy Curic was done but the Senator didn't keep his interview with him. Well, that was also concerning to me, as a news interview is a far cry different than a handshake and a bunch of jokes with a late night talk show host who constantly makes negative remarks about the campaign, the candidates of both parties, past presidents and past political fauxpas on a regular basis. Its a wonder any candidate would go on his show and be interviewed at all. Satire and comedy of course go together, its just so hard to take sometimes when it seems so onesided by these talk show hosts. They also have no mercy, they just blast and melign these candidates until there is nothing left to attack, then they find something like this recent calamity of Senator McCain not showing up on a late night show. Could you give the guy a break and not condemn these candidates no matter what they do? Its one thing to beg for a joke and laughs and millions of viewers at the election free-for-all but could we see some morality with the talk show hosts too? Is there nothing they won't say or do to get a laugh and get the viewers to watch?

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