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I invite you to listen to the following video. I found it disturbing, to say the least, when McCain said, "I’m not saying this is the perfect answer. If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be, I would write it a little bit differently." Its is possible that McCain was just trying to be funny but this is not something which we, as members of a Democratic Republic, find acceptable.

First, at 12:34 PM ET CNN reports that Huckabee stated that McCain made a huge mistake when he even floated the idea of cancelling his plans to attend the debate.  The full article can be found at (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/26/mccain-made-huge-mistake...) but essentially he stated what I previously did in my blog entry "When a Crises Occurs the World Keeps Turning" (http://www.saveourcountry.us/node/80).  Although McCain has since agreed to attend the debates it is still of grave concern that he tried to duck out of his responsibilities as a president

Please visit John McCain's website at: http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/ and insist that he participate in Friday's debate!  I have included a copy of the message I sent him below, feel free to use it!

No matter what the crisis or emergency the rest of the world will continue moving on.  Even though our economy is in crisis a war still rages on in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polar ice caps are still at the second lowest point in history, and the energy crisis continues.  We have a major crisis that has the potential of dragging us into a deep recession or worse, a depression.  However, it not, by any means, the only thing we are facing.  With that said the presidential debates must go on!

Recently the greatest bail out in all of history has been proposed by the Federal Government and without doubt there is a grave amount of concern.  First and foremost the whole idea is to buy bad investments, from various financial institutions, which will prevent those financial institutions from going under and causing a domino effect which  would prevent us from falling into another depression.  Obviously we will all lose if another great depression would occur and spending nearly a trillion dollars is probably a wise move.  However, we must also be 100% certain that this does not turn

During this presidential election we will select a new leader that will serve for the next four years.  As many of us know, four years can be a very long time, consider for a moment that four years ago the now distressed housing market was booming.  Consider, four years ago the economy was relatively healthy and gas prices were half of what they are now.  With this in mind it is critical that we choose a good leader and to do that we must know what leadership means.  Leadership simply is the ability to define a vision, for the common good, and to motivate people to work towards it.

An interesting take on the current "bail outs" and how we are rapidly becoming socialist.  The one item I did not agree with was the assessment of farmers.  The subsidies the author talks about, which go to farmers, don't go to all farmers.  In fact the vast majority of subsidies go to mega corporate farms.  I grew up in rural Minnesota and still live there and have seen how small farmers are rapidly being supressed into extinction as the the corporate giants smother them. 

Recently President Bush blamed congress for the turmoils in the financial markets and I agree with him!  This mess started with the subprime mortgage market which was a direct result of insufficient controls and regulation preventing such behavior.  Mortgage companies were issuing dangerous products to risky consumers and not just a few but tens of thousands.  They then turned around and sold these risky loans as investments and our financial “giants” bought them up like gold.  Then in 2006, two years ago, the housing market began to slow down and at that time the interest rates on the

This last Monday McCain stated, “The Fundamental of the Economy are Still Strong,” and there was an uproar over it. Finally! The simple fact of the matter is, McCain has been saying this for quite some time and no one has called him on it. He has been saying this even though the housing market continues to be in turmoil, people are losing their jobs, and students are paying as high as 12% for student loans!