Focus on the platform, NOT the Shoe platforms!

I heard and read on the news this morning that sales of the shoes and glasses that Sarah Palin wore at the Convention have shot through the roof. So the message is that people are focusing on personalities and in general not what they stand for or what they do.

I am guilty of this at times . . . I cannot state every single position of any candidate. I do not care about their glasses or shoes.

Let's focus on what they say they will do, how they have lived their lives, their values and how effective they have been in public service and representing the people they were elected to represent.

That is just me though and I have clearly been in the minority for a long time. Leaving the country if the Republicans get in power is starting to sound like a very attractive option. The country is being dominated by undereducated, racist, giant truck driving rednecks that hate immigrants and can't think critically. That is who is going to elect John McCain - patriots without thought, who fly the flag strapped to their car or truck but cannot even find Iraq or Afghanistan on the map. Makes me ashamed to be an American, still proud of what we can be but not of what we are now or are becoming.

David