Record Deficits: The work of a "compassionate conservative"

Please read the following link about the projected deficit for this fiscal year:

WASHINGTON - A senior Bush administration official says the budget deficit for this year will set a record in dollar terms, approaching $490 billion.
The official said Monday the deficit was being driven to record levels by the sagging economy and the stimulus payments being made to 130 million households in an effort to keep the country from falling into a deep recession. A deficit approaching $490 billion would easily surpass the current record deficit of $413 billion set in 2004.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the new deficit estimate had not been formally released. Bush administration officials were scheduled to do that at a news conference later Monday.

We sure don't want any of those tax and spend Democrats in office when we can achieve results like this with the borrow and spend GOP'ers.

Why the controversy about the interview of Obama's family?

The newest "scandal" seems to be about the light hearted "interview" given by the Obama family for Access Hollywood. While I did not see the entire program, it appeared to be nothing more than a brief introduction to Barack Obama's children and the portion I did see showed two normal girls who were charming and seemingly well-adjusted.

I'm not sure that this says anything about Senator Obama and his family, but it does appear to speak volumes about the current state of American politics where everything one does or says is put under the microscope. The furor, which apparently revolves around the Senator vowing to keep his children out of the limelight and then allowing the interview to occur, makes no sense to me. One of the things that the national media was able to do quite well was to keep any focus off of Chelsea Clinton during the time her father was president. I have every reason to believe that the press will also allow the Obama children similar privacy if the Senator is elected president.

I hope our focus as voters is on the issues of importance and not silly unimportant items such as this interview, the wearing of flag pins, and others. I'd rather know if we are going to engage in more pre-emptive wars, keep growing our deficets which increases the burdens on our children and grandchildren, and how we are going to educate our children and grandchildren for the future, among other issues. If our election this fall comes down to fear and folly, then we all lose as citizens.

Registering voters in Lucas County

Yesterday I spent some time out at the Westfield Shoppingtown Mall and the University of Toledo registering voters on behalf of the Lucas County Democratic Party and the Barack Obama campaign. Most of the folks I approached were already registered and many of them thanked us for our work, but we were able to get a few new voters to register and hopefully they'll follow through and vote this November.



We were also able to sign up some volunteers to go door to door and make phone calls for the Obama campaign. I hope to be able to work some more toward electing democrats this fall and hopefully we'll see change that will work for ordinary Ohioans in the coming years.



If you are interested in becoming involved, you can certainly email me at my old campaign address of dansack4rep46@bex.net. Thanks.