Dear James, Daniel and Emily
An interesting weekend. I went over to Forrest's house Friday night to watch the first Debate, then spent the rest of the evening talking about it. Saturday as there was no soccer game I kind of relaxed in the morning, then went and got an oil change then took the kids to the park for a while, then home for more relaxation. Sunday we got most of the birthday shopping done for James, and watched the Broncos game.
The debate was interesting. My personal take was that there were no game changers, no gaffes or mistakes. And that because of that, since this was the debate where the focus was on McCain's supposed strong point, foreign policy, that Obama came out of it a winner. And that has pretty much been the consensus of the pundits since then.
The failure of the latest bail out plan yesterday really wasn't that surprising to me. We really have a perfect storm right now of bad things coming to a head at the same time. You have the economic chickens of several years of bad policies (Democrat and Republican to be honest) coming home to roost. And you have this happening less than 2 months before a general election so partisan electoral politics have come into play. And last you have all of this happening at the current height of the new media environment, full of bloggers, and everyone on the earth sharing their opinions like a gigantic open air convention. So this has become an overly politicized nightmare compounded by massive media attention and the short attention span of the electorate. So I am doing my best to keep a level head, and not panic. And realize that financial panics <> Great Depression. The world is not coming to an end, there are options and safeguards in place. And the best thing to do is to keep your eyes on tomorrow, especially when making electoral choices.
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