| I put quotes around it because the intent of this thread was not to have any kind of meaningful issues discussion, but instead to play volleyball with the 15 second CNN soundbyte versions. I bet nobody posting here had even bothered to look up a candidate's actual position statements in their entirety.
BTW, one of the most important roles a President must play is providing leadership. That includes communicating to the American public that she or he understands their pain (i.e. paying $4 a gallon at the gas pump) and is willing to jump in and show that the government is listening.
That is a different dynamic than a longer-term policy debate, such as whether or not a Senator should vote for Dick Cheney's energy bill in 2005 that was a Christmas tree of energy company giveaways. |