The Second Debate Sucked

In the end, the market will take care of itself, if only those who wish to redistribute wealth and "equalize" the market would stay out of its way.

Point further in case, the "gouging" statute and the current fuel shortage in North GA.

wait, What? McCain is responsible for the current economic crisis? I thought it was the Dem. party that pushed the need for mortgages for everyone. No down payment? No problem. Down on your luck? No Problem.

The over regulation in the first place is what put us here. I also lay blame on the current administration and Congress for not addressing the issue 4 years ago and adjusting dangerous regulations, but to talk about sources we need to go TO the source. That source lies squarely within the left wing agenda to insure everyone gets a nice house, even when they can't afford it.

From Thoreaux's On The Duty of Civil Disobediance:

"Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient, by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of india-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievious persons who put obstructions on the railroads."

I agree, but I don't think he had enough time to do so. McCain was trying so hard to just throw out so many lies that Obama was just trying to make sure everything was covered. For example, McCain started out saying that taxes can't be raised and that they needed to be lowered, implying that he was going to do so. He later said that Obama was going to raise taxes. To most citizens that's a huge thing, so I'm glad Obama went in there and cleared everything up point by point.

So while I agree that it would have been nice to have some more direct hits from Obama, I think he looked good by catching McCain in all his futile efforts to sound like an admirable candidate.