As we inch closer and closer to the moment we have all been waiting for, we will soon find out who the next president will be to serve our country. There are many positives and negatives on both sides of the candidacy. However, if the Republicans win, I would be personally disappointed. The last time the Democratic party won was when William J. Clinton won in 1993. It has been exactly eight years that we have had a Republican in the White House. It is time for a Democrat to lead our country into the right direction.
Although both presidential candiates have a lot to offer to the country, Barack Obama appears to have more strengths than John McCain. The most obvious strength is Barack Obama's youth and he also appears to be more intelligent and charismatic than John McCain. Barack Obama also sees our country not as a whole but as being made up of individual needs and individual problems. I truly feel that Barack Obama understands everyone, no matter if you are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, etc. John McCain on the other hand, seems more in tune with big business interests. Also, not to leave out the obvious fact, Obama would also be the first African-American president. Another history making event.
On the other hand, John McCain has an extensive understanding of our country's strengths and weaknesses. John McCain has been a United States Senator for many years and his foreign policy experience exceeds that of Barack Obama. John McCain, is also better known than Barack Obama who is not widely known outside his home state of Illinois, so he has to boost his recognition as the next president of the United States of America. Did you know that John McCain was not born in the United States, unlike Barack Obama, who was? John McCain was actually born in Panama when it was considered a U.S. territory. The only reason why he can run for the presidency, is because while the Panama Canal was being constructed, it was then a U.S. territory called the Canal Zone. If this were not true, he would not be constitutionally eligible to run for president.
In conclusion, I see this race as being one of the closest presidential elections yet. My father, and brother who are liberals, say that this will be a "landslide." However, my grandparents and mother are conservatives, so I am stuck in between who I should vote for in the next presidential elections. We do need change in politcal parties to try and correct the tragic things that have happened to our country within the past seven years. I do not understand why these two good people have to be so harsh on each other just to win presidency! At least, whoever wins, we will make history as to Barack Obama being the first African-American to serve our country or John McCain to be the oldest president to serve our country. Even Sarah Palin will make history by becoming the first female Vice-President.
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I do not have the opportunity to vote in presidential elections, because I'm not a U.S citizen or eighteen years old, but I might be able to in the next presidential election. However, for the meantime, if I was able to vote for presidential candidates, then my vote would go to Barack Obama. One of the main reasons that I like him more than John McCain is because of his foreign policy, I do not want another Republican like president Bush to take place in the white house. I hated how he treated the middle east, thinking that he can declare war as he wishes and not mind the consequences of it, it's his fault that nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion by him. I want someone like Barack Obama who is willing to sit down and talk to other countries about difficult issues rather than shoving them off. I also think that Barack Obama is very intelligent, and even better off with Joe Biden's wisdom. I favor them both, and I think that both of them will lead the country into the right direction, and regain the most respected nation on earth. Barack Obama understands that it is not the big business corporations that make up the economy but rather the middle class families. Everything starts from the bottom up, and that's why we need more financial support for public schools and for college students.
The main reason that I dislike John McCain is because he had served in the Vietnam war, and I think it's most likely for a president, who have served in a war, to declare another. That's why John McCain is against pulling out the U.S troops in Iraq, and as Ralph Nador said, if John McCain becomes the president, he will take some of the criminal counts of George Bush and Dick Cheney if he doesn't change some of his plans. I think that continuing the war in Iraq will lead up to nowhere but adding more bloodshed. I also dislike Sara Palin, because she's unexperienced, and it's very scary to know what will happen if she becomes president of the United Stated, and there is a really good chance that she might.
I hate how somebody would think that Barack Obama wants to do harm for this country. Like that old Republican lady who said to John McCain, "I don't trust Obama, I think he's an arab." My mother doesn't want him to become president because she thinks he's a muslim. People shouldn't care about these issues, it's very unintellectual to say these things out loud. I hope the citizens of the United States make the right decision on this very significant presidential election, this is their final chance for change as I see it.
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