The importance of doing your job…
Good post at Veith’s blog (focuses on faith and vocation) this morning: The Candidates’ Day Jobs and the Bailout. I’m for whatever truly needs some sort of bailout. I’m not for throwing in, whole-hog, student loans and mortgages. This plan needs meticulous scrutiny and study…I’m all for suspending the campaign for a couple of weeks. Set up a three debates mid-October through the end of October. I think we all know by now who stands for what.
If people doing their jobs (senators being senators) causes them to, as Veith put it, “present themselves as riding in on a white horse, delivering votes, and saving the economy”, then so be it. I cringe when I think of all the money wasted on campaigns and Americans still remained divided.
The President’s words in last night’s speech concern me, but I also think he shouldn’t have delivered such a sanitized speech. I would have preferred a McCain-style speech, specifically citing failures and announcing some firings.
America needs a vocal and unabashed leader who won’t spot-check himself in the mirror of polls. I think I have to go back to Reagan to find someone like that. Clinton was the king of poll-checking. Obama also strikes me as a poll-checker; McCain does not.
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