I'm bound and determined to post another proposition review today...but it will likely be the no-brainer, prop 12.  I just can't face any more fine print at the moment.

I did get the chance to watch last night's debate...but not until this morning.  Yesterday afternoon we were at the celebration of Shelter Partnership's newly named S. Mark Taper Foundation Shelter Resource Bank.  The Taper Foundation gave the inaugural grant for the nonprofit's refurbishment of their central warehouse, which distributes nearly a million dollars worth of goods to L.A. County shelters each month.  Dan's on their board and I am so proud of the work he's done with them.

We were joined by our friends, Tom, Peter and Rod.  Then Rod and Peter joined Dan and I at the club for a round of golf in the late afternoon.  It's definitely coming on Fall, as we weren't able to finish the round in the daylight.

At any rate, the day's festivities, combined with writing up Prop 9, left me with no blog time.  Sorry to have missed you!

As to the debate, I thought it was the best of the bunch.  Moderator Bob Schieffer did an excellent job of keeping the candidates on topic (as much as is possible) and allowing for back and forth exchange.  I don't think we learned anything earth-shattering in the debate.  It seemed like both candidates shared their views on what's best for America going forward.

McCain's line about Obama not running against Bush was a good sound bite, but I don't think he was effective at drawing a clear distinction between his own economic policy (cut taxes for businesses and the wealthy) and Bush's.  And Obama had very artfully stitched the two men back together by the end of the debate.

19 more days to go!

Leave a Reply