Politics

This was written last week:

I watched the final debate. Strangely, I felt a sense of incompleteness, as if there were so much more to address. I watched in awe as Barack Obama carefully dodged the arrows of nonsense shot by John McCain. It frustrated me that in the debates so little is said that can actually help me understand the two politicians. My family and I are staunch Obama supporters, like many New Yorkers and Black people. However, at school, I try very hard to be open-minded about Republicans. I wonder what Republicans are thinking about McCain. He just doesn't make sense to me. His points often come out of nowhere, usually accusatory instead of informational to the general public. I was so frustrated because I wanted to be able to critique Republicans and their beliefs for myself. McCain would lead me to think that most Republicans are extremely redundant and a little stupid. I don't want to believe that. I believe that Republican views are probably as legitimate as Democratic views. However, I'm never really sure what Republicans believe, so I always feel like I'm judging the whole party on the actions of its current poster boy, though I hear he's generally not popular with Republicans. Do Republicans back him because he's the candidate who won the primary, or because they actually agree with him? I feel that  it would not be possible for one to agree with him, because he sounds a little insane. His attacks on Obama are uncalled for, redundant, and never fully explained. He is continuously accusing Obama, hanging on to Obama's blunders as tenaciously as my dog hangs on to a sock, but he stumbles around many important other subjects. I don't know what to think sometimes. I don't try to fool myself and think I'm really all that savvy in terms of political issues, but I'm interested. I try to stay in the loop so to speak. I guess that's that.