I keep wondering what the issues of 2008 are going to be.
The big three to me are the war, the rising level of poverty, and health care. I was pondering fuel costs but they are part of the rising level of poverty. In reality, I suspect that the war and health care are as well. The war effort costs a great deal of money and that money cannot be used in other places, such as health care, food, or housing.
Some previous elections were on 'values' issues. Most of the time the 'values' issues raised were gay marriage and abortion. The biggest issue of Jesus, poverty, was never raised as a value.
It makes me wonder what values are going to be in the forefront if the election ends up between Rudy and Hillary. It probably can't be character or family values. Actually Hillary can stand up on the character and family values platform a whole lot higher than Rudy. And Rudy is pro-choice and pro-gay rights. Or always has been.
Character is often a key component to who wins elections. Or so they say. Personally, it appears to me that the person of the worst character is usually the winner. It will be an interesting election. I suspect that the campaign won't be. Sadly, issues will be placed to the side while people perform character assassination on each other.
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Hopfully healthcare will be at the forefront, that is AFTER our troops are brought home.
The upcoming hard hitting election campaigning is in my mind going to be ugly, embarrassing to all of us. The mud slinging, name calling and bringing forth and parading of skeletons lurking in candidates closets will no doubt consume the airwaves, internet, radio and print.
Meanwhile, while thousands of our troops are dying, and countless others are being wounded, bith physically and mentally, to try and bring "democracy" to other countries, to give others in the world the precious right to choose their elected leaders, sadly here at home only a small fraction of those eligible to vote will do so.
I'm hoping Oprah and Obama spint things a little different on the campaign trail...we'll see.
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