Last night we finally got to see Obama and Clinton go at it alone one on one, and well… they were pretty nice to each other. They both played it safe and didn’t go after each other too hard, but there were some things that stood out.
When asked how she could be an agent for change if the country has been headed by a Clinton or Bush for the past twenty plus years she responded with a non-answer. To her credit it was an entertaining non-answer, but a non-answer nonetheless. In case you didn’t catch it, she said something to the effect of: ‘a Clinton had to clean up after the first Bush and maybe it’s time for another Clinton to clean up after a Bush.’
I found it funny that both candidates talked about the rich not needing tax cuts and such things when some of Hollywood’s biggest players were in the audience.
I do believe that Obama is the better candidate of the two, if you had to choose one. He clobbered her when talking about the Iraq war and she did well talking about her health car plan… but… it just doesn’t make sense to me. Let’s see, she wants to mandate health care so that if you can’t afford it you’ll be slapped (most likely gently) with a penalty if you do not have it. So, she’s telling me that I have to worry about finding a way to afford health care if I don’t have enough money to sign up cause I might get hit with a penalty.
Obama’s plan just makes more sense. Lower prices so everyone can get it. I mean, who doesn’t want health care? Is there really anyone who doesn’t want health care and wants to struggle when a medical emergency comes there way? I don’t think so. Look at consumer products. At $600 both the iPhone and PS3 didn’t sell amazingly well, and when the prices dropped to $400 people bought it in droves.
Super Tuesday will be interesting though, and it’s coming up fast.
Now for some other musings:
Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo! and create some actual competition for Google. Yahoo’s stocks have fallen and well, this just seems to good to be true. It would definitely raise questions for Microsoft about buying too much and having too much power and all that, but I’m curious to see what a Yahoo MSN would be like… or Yahoo Live or whatever they want to call it.
Motorola has been struggling for a while now. You can only be carried by the Razr for so long. Silly Motorola, it’s time to hit the drawing board and think of some new phones and designs that don’t milk the Razr. Nokia is clearly the leader of the world but needs to do more in America. They could possibly open up new Nokia Stores and advertise those sweet N series phones they have. The new one, the N 82, is more feature-packed that even the iPhone.
