http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/JulieZavala/9095 As I watched McCain and Obama debate tonight I wished that one of the questions asked of them was something like, "You two can't even follow the debate time limits for answering questions. You both agreed on this before the debate. How can we trust you with our country when you can't follow simple rules---that you've agreed to follow?!" Frustrating. But tonights debate hasn't changed anything in my mind. I'm still voting the same as I had already planned. I'm not trying to get a political discussion going here, I just wanted to point out how sad it is that politicians are locked into these predictable  outcomes. Nobody's  really a maverick. As I watched McCain and Obama debate tonight I wished that one of the questions asked of them was something like, "You two can't even follow the debate time limits for answering questions. You both agreed on this before the debate. How can we trust you with our country when you can't follow simple rules---that you've agreed to follow?!" Frustrating. But tonights debate hasn't changed anything in my mind. I'm still voting the same as I had already planned. I'm not trying to get a political discussion going here, I just wanted to point out how sad it is that politicians are locked into these predictable  outcomes. Nobody's  really a maverick. en-us I vaguely remember Bret Maverick(James Garner), and then there was the Maverick that Tom Cruise played in "Top Gun"............If any of the parties in this election decide to go on Oprah and jump up and down on a couch, I hope it's Sarah Palin. And while you are dead on with your assessment of their inability to adhere to simple debate rules, show me a single President in recent memory, that has followed all of the rules or not invoked "executive privilege", or simply "taken the fifth" to opt out of doing so. It's the American way, loopholes. Don't you know? http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/JulieZavala/9095/#c_72664 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/JulieZavala/9095/#c_72664 I vaguely remember Bret Maverick(James Garner), and then there was the Maverick that Tom Cruise played in "Top Gun"............If any of the parties in this election decide to go on Oprah and jump up and down on a couch, I hope it's Sarah Palin. And while you are dead on with your assessment of their inability to adhere to simple debate rules, show me a single President in recent memory, that has followed all of the rules or not invoked "executive privilege", or simply "taken the fifth" to opt out of doing so. It's the American way, loopholes. Don't you know? Yeah, pilot. That's the sad part. It's like watching a television drama where the characters never say the things a normal person would say. They have their script that they're rigidly locked into. And I'm left sitting on the couch, yelling at the t.v., "WHAT?! Tell him that you didn't do it! Don't just stand there!" I wonder if politicians are even able to think and react normally anymore after being so saturated in  political speak. On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart  breaks it down very well and shows clips of the politician saying ridiculous, ludicrous things and then calls him or her out on them. But politics/politicians are sad. Loopholes and all. http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/JulieZavala/9095/#c_72692 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/JulieZavala/9095/#c_72692 Yeah, pilot. That's the sad part. It's like watching a television drama where the characters never say the things a normal person would say. They have their script that they're rigidly locked into. And I'm left sitting on the couch, yelling at the t.v., "WHAT?! Tell him that you didn't do it! Don't just stand there!" I wonder if politicians are even able to think and react normally anymore after being so saturated in  political speak. On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart  breaks it down very well and shows clips of the politician saying ridiculous, ludicrous things and then calls him or her out on them. But politics/politicians are sad. Loopholes and all.