Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

I’m watching the Republican Debate right now on Fox News — yet all I hear is “Obama this” and “Obama that”, along with pointless bickering back and forth between Perry and Romney. I’m not really hearing any ideas actually discussed.

You can make your own conclusions…

We can sit around arguing about how to solve the jobs issue in this country or we can do something about it.

Bottom line to politicians: You are not elected to keep your party in office. You’re elected to govern and improve this country. Go do that and quit this pointless back and forth bickering that serves no purpose.

Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again

What are you smoking Michele? Seriously, who says something like that? I guess the fact that a Presidential candidate made an absurd promise they can not keep shouldn’t surprise me anymore. Is it just me, or could the political system in the US use a massive influx of non-salesmen/women? I’m tired of hearing candidates sell crap they can’t deliver to the American people.

On a list of dumbest quotes politicians have ever muttered publicly, this has got to be near the top of the list.

Interest owed on the federal debt is 1,000,000,000 (billion) every 46 hours

Really? Pardon my French, but are you fucking kidding me? Sorry, the national debt is one of the things that just makes me sick to my stomach every time I think about it. Why does no one bat an eye when they think about this? I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t sit well with me that we’re going to be leaving future generations with a monstrous debt — that’s getting worse, NOT better, by the day — they have to deal with. And that’s most certainly going to happen unless people start voting for politicians who will act in the long term best interest of this country as opposed to those who are willing to cut taxes just to get votes.

But, this country doesn’t vote for politicians that raise taxes, tell the truth, and make tough decisions. Damn.

But that’s just my 2 cents

The government profits even more from our oil addiction than the super-rich oil companies do.

Here’s the visual:

Honestly, we need to SOMEHOW cut this addiction. The world’s oil supply won’t last forever.

Anyway, I’m excited to see them tackle the problems facing this country — and I am confident they will take us in the right direction.

Congratulations Barack.

McCain said that fixing social security is easy and he knows how to do it. Really? That’s funny — why the heck hasn’t anyone done anything in the last 30 years to fix it then? And note McCain has been an active figure in Washington DC for almost 30 years and nothing has been done. Explain that to me. Or at least explain how the problem is so easy and yet no one has come up with a workable solution.

Health care:

McCain thinks health care is a responsibility and Obama thinks it is a right in America. I’m going to disagree with both of them. Not that I don’t think health care SHOULD be a right, but let’s be realistic here. Whether or not you choose to believe it, access to affordable health care is a privilege in this world. With an estimated 2 billion people living on less than a dollar a day, health care is most certainly not a right worldwide. We are working, and should continue working, towards a point when access to health care is a fundamental human right. But we’re not there yet.

Foreign Policy:

McCain doesn’t think we should talk with our enemies. Obama does. Running the United States really is just like running a business and I think most business strategies can be successfully applied to politics. Furthering relations with other countries and signing up new allies takes the same tactics as finalizing a business development deal with a new partner. It’s obvious one of the tactics to closing deals is…TALKING.

This issue is dead simple — talk to your allies as well as your enemies. What happens if you don’t?

NOTHING.

And that’s not acceptable.