McCain pulls a Moose out of his hat!

On occasion I will get a comment or e-mail asking "Who is it that tricked us". Well, the characters pulling the slight of hand change all the time, but I have to get the soapbox out on this trick in particular.

I think the best way for me to explain it is for you to imagine a huge stage filled with important & powerful characters, these characters decide the future course of the United States and therefore the world. In the spotlight are two men debating the direction this country will go in. Do we stay on the same path or do we decide it is time for a change. This is one of the most important moments in U.S. history. Deadly serious as in the background we see people losing their homes, people suffering because of no health care, foreign powers ratteling their sabers at us and a general mistrust of the U.S. by all the foreign players. One of these men tells us we cannot go on like this, that we must change the course we are on. That we can no longer be dependent on foreign oil, that we can no longer isolate ourselves on this world stage, that all Americans deserve and have a right to health care, that we are all equal and the rich and poweful will no longer decide the course of American history. The other guy looks around takes off his top hat and pulls out a Moose. It is a woman moose and it wears nice glasses. All of the sudden we stop talking about serious issues and want to know all about the moose. Who is the moose, does the moose have kids, wow the moose can read a speech that someone else wrote for her. Maybe the moose is a puppet? This moose is from Alaska, a state pretty much controlled by the Oil Industry, after all all the folks in Alaska get a big fat check each year from the oil they drill up. This moose will not talk to the press because basically she has no idea what to say. But boy does she get the attention. Moose is on the front page of the paper every day. The paper tells us what a good decision it was for Mr. McCain to pull this moose out of his hat, who would have ever expected him to do that. Well, I did. Because like one million times before when a certain group of people don't want to discuss the real issues, they trick us with a distraction. A DISTRACTION that is all it is!!

Have you been tricked? Do you discuss the Moose? Do you read about the Moose? Do you listen to others talk about the Moose? If so please stop it. Discuss the issues important to this campaign. Discuss the people we are voting on for President and what they have to say. Right now moose has nothing to add.