The Debates

Tom Udall vs. Steve Pearce Debate

My teen age daughter told me after the debate that Congressman Pearce put her to sleep and anyone who puts you to sleep should not be allowed to be a senator.

For the adults in the room there were a few points:

Women have the right to earn the same as men and unless you plan on making it a mandatory law to list every employee’s pay rate along with their sex and race then something should be done to reverse the Supreme Court’s ruling as to when the clock starts on an EOC claim.

As a parent healthcare for children in this state is very important. Congressman Pearce voted against the s-chip bill and it was an important issue for all parents in this state. Nothing is more upsetting then having a sick child and not being able to make things better. I cannot image not being able to get my child healthcare if she needed it.

As for drilling, Congressman Udall has the common sense to know when to support it and that it should only be used as a stop gap measure until a reliable source of renewable energy can be developed by our national labs. Congressman Udall is working to keep our labs long term and Congressman Pearce can only hold onto the past.

Congressman Pearce has voted with President Bush (Bust) 91% of the time and he should be ashamed of putting oil companies’ needs ahead of New Mexican voters. We here in New Mexico can simply not afford another four more years of the same. I understand that Congressman Pearce is from Hobbs and that is oil field country so he is welcome to return to it because we don’t want him as our next U.S. Senator.

Barack Obama vs. John McCain

When Senator McCain told the audience that Sarah Palin was a role model, I looked down at my daughter and told her that under no circumstances did I ever want her to have a child out of wedlock much less at the age of seventeen.

As for John McCain’s remarks about a woman’s right to choose there was not a democratic woman in the room who found his little reaction to be anything but offensive. To say that a woman’s life had no meaning was the height of disrespect for all women in this country. Seventy two year old men should have no say when it comes to a woman’s body because this is not the nineteen fifties.

As for who is hanging out with terrorists, John McCain is the one with supporters who hate the American way of life so much that they would wish an African man dead before they would see him as president. Hate speech should never be condoned by a candidate who is running for either president or vice president of the United States of America.

After listen to both debates one right after the other it is clear that the republican candidates are so desperate that they will say or do anything to increase their changes to get elected this year.

People of note at last night’s debate were State Treasurer James B. Lewis, Party Chairman Brian Colon, State Representative Sheryl Williams Stapleton, Major Marty Chavez and State Union President Christine Trujillo. James B. Lewis and I spoke briefly after the presidential debate. He said that he was pleased with the results and that Senator Obama had done a great job. He also agreed with me that Senator McCain had come off as being a little too desperate in his attacks of Senator Obama.