Carly Fiorina, McCain campaign spokeswoman, ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground before receiving a nice, plush $21 million dollar golden parachute - the kind of golden parachute John McCain supposedly opposes. (I wish I could get 2.5 times my annual salary to suck at my job. And somehow corporate America runs better than government?) She thinks none of the presidential candidates, including her very own John McCain, could run a business.

Warren Buffett, not affiliated with any campaign (though he is notably pro-Democrat out of a basic sense of fairness and decency), is the world's richest man and perhaps one of the most successful businesspeople in American history. If anyone knows how to run a business, it's Warren Buffett - and he said in March that he'd happily put Obama or Clinton in charge of a business.

So who do you trust - the woman who took a successful computer company and crashed it, or perhaps the most successful businessman ever?

For me, the choice is easy.

Labels: Barack Obama, Carly Fiorina, Democrats, John McCain, Politics, Republicans, Warren Buffett

If you watched the Democratic Convention last week, you saw a party that loves their country and the people in it, and wants to win an election by appealing to the people and calling for a new direction for the country. You saw a party that, while very clear about the differences between them and their opponents, has a positive vision for what America can become and a positive direction of leadership.

The Republicans, in contrast, have become a party of hate and contempt. They hate the Democratic Party and their standard-bearer, Barack Obama, and clearly think that the rest of the American people are too stupid to realize that the reason the country has been run into the ground is years of incompetent, morally-bankrupt, corrupt, and ideologically-unsound Republican "leadership." Their plan to win the election is to pour as much contempt on Barack Obama as possible and hope they can make enough people afraid of him that they'll stay home.

I sincerely hope that the American people will be smart enough to see through the Republicans' lies and amorality. I also sincerely hope that those who consider themselves Republicans will put country above party and call on their party to begin campaigning honestly on issues and ideas rather than on hate, contempt, and fearmongering. But mostly, I hope that those who have taken the Republican Party in this direction - including their presidential and vice-presidential candidates - go down to such ignominious defeat in November that their political philosophy is completely discredited and people of conscience retake the Republican Party.

Labels: Democrats, Politics, Republicans