Talking About Issues...For Once

On Tuesday, both presidential candidates were campaigning in the state of Pennsylvania and the hot topic of the day was health care reform and income taxes. While campaigning in Chester, PA Barack Obama attacked John McCain's health care plan by saying, "it's radical and it's unaffordable." McCain responded by attacking the democratic candidate's agenda to increase the size of government by spending more money that will be collected from an increase in income taxes. The income tax references set off the Obama camp, and they came back with their same response, that their tax plan would not raise taxes for anyone making less than $200,000 a year. The McCain camp chose to reference a Joe Biden quote, in which the senator said that the cut off for an increase in taxes was at $150,000, thus trying to prove that Democrats continually lower the income level in which they will tax. This continual response of opposing candidates is exactly what elections are supposed to entail, but the real differences this time is that we are not talking about the amount of money spent on a candidates wardrobe or the type of cars candidates drive, instead this time the real issues that will affect Americans are those being discussed. It only took three months but now we are finally getting down to what will ultimately determine our future as a country, and these types of things ane what voters should base their reasoning off of, not the freak show that we have seen in the media since day one. To all voters who have not made up their minds, and even to those who have, issues matter and nothing else.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/28/campaign.wrap/index.html