Even though we have committed over $800 billion “The Chosen One” seems to think we have an unlimited supply of money to spend. During the debate he said “I'm going to spend some money on the key issues that we've got to work on”.

Here is a partial list he supplied of what he wants to spend our money on and this is just from Tuesday night:

ü     A tax cut to 95% of working Americans A good portion of who pay nothing now.

ü     Doubling the Peace Corps This is A “key issue”?

ü     Put more troops in Afghanistan I get it now liberators in Afghanistan occupiers in Iraq, it’s done alphabetically.

ü     Invest in college affordability The Fed has been throwing money at secondary education for years and prices have skyrocketed, bet if you stopped the grants and let free market economics rule education…well you know.

ü     Helping state and local governments set up road projects and bridge projects Is it time to change occupations?

ü     Offer to those who don’t have insurance the same kind of plan that Senator McCain and I enjoy as federal employees With that kind of a Cadillac program who won’t want to change over?

ü     Help ordinary families pay their bills Cool, I’m an ordinary family.

ü     Stabilize housing prices How is he going to do that buy every dwelling in America?

ü     Provide a 50% tax credit for employers to buy health insurance for there employees 50% of what?

ü     Create a volunteer corps all across this country Only a liberal can find a way to spend money on volunteer work.

ü     Reform health care Oh the fed is qualified to do this (see VA hospitals).

ü     Invest in solar, wind, geothermal energy What the hell have we been doing for 20 years with zero results?

ü     Work with your employer to lower the cost of your premiums by up to $2,500 a year Love to see this program on paper.

ü     Help homeowners so that they can stay in their homes Without a job what else can I do but stay home.

ü     Provide incentives to buy a fuel efficient car that are made right here in the United States Who will be able to afford a new car and what American auto maker build it with what this will do to the economy?

ü     (My personal favorite) “We’ve got to provide moral support to the Poles and Estonia and Latvia and all of the nations that were former Soviet satellites. But we’ve also got to provide them with financial and concrete assistance to help rebuild their economies. Georgia in particular is now on the brink of enormous economic challenges” Let me see if I have this right, our economy is crumbling and you want to send my money to Eastern Europe?

Senator McCain I’m just an engineer in the manufacturing sector. No coaches no writers no outside help at all, though some would say I need an editor. If I can see 16 knockout punches on his spending alone where were you?

I saw you spank Romney in the primaries get it done, one more chance.

You’re running for vise president? You have only served 2 years as the governor of your state, for crying out loud. Oh sure you have a reputation as a reformer, you fought and won many battles against the corruption of the good old boy network. But come on you didn’t even finish your vary first term.

Pryor to that you fought corruption as a high level appointed commissioner in your state, a position you resigned owing to the frustration resulting from what you saw as insurmountable corruption. You sought a position of higher authority which you intended to use to fight these scoundrels.

Why you support the rights of citizens to keep and bare arms, you’re a hunter a fisherman a naturalist, why you even believe strongly in family values. How could you, how could anyone like you think you have what it takes to be vise president? If something happens to the president you would have to fill his shoes and I just don’t think you can handle it.

Sure you’ve spent the Lyons share of your adult life in public service fighting for the betterment of your community and state but you’ve had other interests too, all that outdoor stuff, church and all those books you’ve written, maybe that’s why when you ran for mayor of your home town you came in third folks probably thought you’d be too distracted.

I know Town Hall readers are among the most informed on the internet. Some of you are thinking, wait a minute “Sara Palin won her mayoral election, twice as a mater of fact and I didn’t know she was an author.

Fact is I’m not writing about Mrs. Palin but Teddy Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt became president of the United States in September of 1901 after

the death of William McKinley, 9 months after the election. There is a big rock in the Dakotas with his likeness on it, guess he did ok.

In a speech broadcast on CNN today from Kissimmee Fl, Hillary (pants suit) Clinton gave an unenthusiastic speech on the economy and of course to offer her unwavering support for “the chosen one”.

She didn’t attack Palin as I had anticipated but you could still see the antipathy in her presentation. And why not, she has always been transparent in her revulsion, besides she wants “the chosen one” to lose almost as much as I do. She thinks she can “I told you so” in to the nomination in 2012.

The lackluster little talk did contain one line (I’ll have to paraphrase I haven’t found the transcript yet) that was vary telling, a perfect illustration of what has happed to the Democratic Party. She advised the pants suited zombies listening and watching to make sure they asked themselves, what’s in it for me, before making there decision in November.

Amazing is it not, that in 47 years a party can go from “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country” to “ask what’s in it for me”?

More JFK:

“And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.”

“To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves”

“We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.”

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shank from this responsibility - I welcome it.”

“ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man”

All quotes from JFK, all the same inaugural address January 20^th 1961.

President John F. Kennedy was not by any means a conservative but he was also not Nancy Polosie, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Joe Biden and sure as hell not Barack Obama.

Our country, the world for that matter has changed drastically in 47 years: scratch paper to lap tops, thermo nuclear destruction to global warming, leave it to beaver to MTV, rabbit ears to cable. Some changes are good some not so much and some are down right terrifying (see Obama/biden).

Did you catch that crap on Fox News late in the convention coverage last night?

I was switching between Cspan and Fox primarily to catch the commentary between the speeches, you know Newt, Laura and the gang, and things just started getting kind of weird.

First some of the comments where a little bizarre, then they cut off the first part of Huckabee’s fine speech so we could here Brit Hume finish rattling off. I wrote that off as a glitch, things can happen.

But then after Sarah Palin’s slam dunk with a 15 foot goal, I was flabbergasted. As most of us where drying our eyes and holding our sides from all the laughing, Hume is correcting; himself “she gave good speech, well she didn’t really write It, she read a good speech”.

I watched “the chosen one’s” speech on Fox and I surly don’t remember any comments about who wrote the drivel that he spouted. Hell who was the last politician to write his own speeches Abraham Lincoln? (excluding of course for Ron Paul, who else could do that kind of work).

At least a half a dozen times he made reference to her having not written the speech. His counterpart seemed to be defending her by stating “well I’m sure she had input and…” Almost as if his co-host was as astounded as I.

Maybe it was just me, I’ve been a little sleep deprived this last couple of weeks. I’m looking for the transcript, more later I’m sure. In the interim Fox I’ll be watching you; you’re the best we have on the tube now but lately…

In my career I have worked with many experienced people, as a matter of fact before I recommend someone for hire I need to see at least a modicum of expertise.

I have also seen a good number of these experienced and qualified individuals dismissed. Why, because after an extended period of time they have accomplished little or those activities where of little or no value.

A Production Supervisor for example received a salary from a former employer of mine for 12 months a few years back. During that year he was on; sick leave, vacation, disability leave and leave of absence for 50 weeks. I’m sure he added the time to his resume but what was the benefit of his experience to the company.

Jimmy Carter for example, with 4 years of experience as our President can list as his accomplishments: destroying our economy, loosing our respect around the world, giving a foothold to Islamic Radicals, empowering OPEC and giving away the Panama Canal (which many believe is now under Chinese control, swell).

The words “experience” and “change” have been more abused in this campaign than a Bill Clinton intern. Fact is neither communicates anything when used as a complete sentence.

Now 3 of the 4 presidential and vise presidential candidates may lay claim to accomplishments, some more than others and some better than others. But please Mr. Obama if the best you can come up with is voting present and spending most or your 1^st term in the Senate running a presidential campaign with 2500 mostly unpaid employees your missing the question, besides it’s only an accomplishment if you win, fat chance.

While we’re on the subject, don’t you think “presumptive nomine” is a little over the top as well?

Being a hold my nose and vote for McCain conservative I had been waiting on pins and needles for his veep announcement for a day and a half, praying, please don’t throw the base under an imported bus again.  Not announcing just before “the chosen ones” speech I assumed it would be Friday PM.

Enjoying my typical Friday lunch, I was in a strip mall parking lot trying to cram a subway down my neck as fast as humanly possible so I could make it back to work in time for my 1:00 while listening to Rush on my car radio.

I missed the meeting.

To say John McCain was not my first choice is akin to saying dead bug stew is not my first choice as a snack for my Super Bowl party. It’s not like I would vote for “the chosen ones” and not voting at all is in reality the same thing, but I was missing the excitement of ’04.

At first I was dumbfounded, he picked who? As I listened to the introduction I dropped my meatball and pepperoni sub on the floor board, this is too good to be true. When she addressed the crowd I was listening intently while trying to save my floor mats, Wow! I put the floor mats in the garbage can, what the hell 30 bucks, didn’t like the color anyway.

What a slam dunk, more real experience than the top of the other ticket, pro life, pro family, pro reform, pro gun, pro America and she not only supports the war on terror she has a son in the US Army.

And for a real windfall (no big oil witticism intended) not only can she give Washington the real scoop on our need to increase domestic oil production she can probably do the drilling.

I believe that John McCain with his outstanding (a word one doesn’t normally associate with him) selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, has not only insured his victory in November but given conservatives and Republicans a lock on the White House for at least the next 12 years.

There will never be another Ronald Reagan but this woman has the potential, the values, the charisma and she’s a hottie. Am I allowed to say that? It’s about time we had one on our side (sorry Margaret).

Thank you John McCain we’re along way from square you and I, but obviously you do listen and you’re headed in the right direction. Ahhh what the heck…forget about the sandwich.