McCain and public money

The candidate for President McCain is mad about a promise unkept.  Well, I would be mad about a promise lost too, but...

This promise was to take public campaign funds.  McCain knows like Mrs. Clinton, he will have a hard time in the general election to raise the kind of money O'bama has been able to raise.  For McCain, it is an equalizer: the public campaign funds.

Obama is in this race to win, and he made a great chess move yesterday.  Yes, the media will be swaying in the wind about broken promises, but a promise that limits the ability of the public to give to the candidate they want to support was simply Un-American.

Angry People

I walked through a Wal-Mart today.  This is something I do once in a while to see if I can find a good deal on socks. Today was different.  There were more people there than ever before. What I saw and heard was a lot of  individuals that were angry.  

I don't know why they were complaining and trying to run each other over, but I can hazard a guess.  It is the state of the economy that has people agitated.  I know Wal-Mart is an odd place to see the effects of the Bush economic policies at work.  The simplicity of it boggles the mind.  

Maybe those individuals, that were there, were only looking for one or two common cheap items to buy.  Again that is only a guess, but as I approached the check-out stands and saw people with carts full of stuff. People were standing in long lines waiting to rush out of the store with their gathered goods.  Hoarding, gathering, complaining and rushing were my observations. 

If what I saw today was a snapshot of what is coming with gas price projected on going higher, which makes shipping cheap goods a not so cheap thing, there maybe more angry people in the future of the USA.