For the most part last night confirmed my leaning towards Barak Obama. My family is Republican. I have voted Republican in the past but now......I remember in 2000 when Bush was running for election and�Christians were so excited to have an�Evangelical in office (well the Evangelicals were at least). I�was excited too as an Evangelical/Pentecostal Chrstian. And then everything went wrong. We thought that if we put somone in office who�shared our values that everything would turn out fine. We were tired of the moral failings of Bill Clinton, we were tired of seeing our�beliefs scorned and left out of the�potitical discussion. Eight�years later I can only wonder, "What were we thinking?" He sure�looked good on paper, but�that was about it. And maybe if we had taken the time to really�consider who we were�voting for we would have�hesitated, maybe not. There is so much information out there. It is dfficult to really completely vet a�candidate. Bush, who had virtually no foreign affairs experience, served during a time when foreign affairs experience was needed more than anything else. All of the moral issues were still�present, of course, and yes�some�strides were made to hold back the tide of immoral�liberalism.�However, that was a sideshow. And�this President who was elected because�he was an Evangelical Christian,�because he was an honest man, because he was not a philanderer, turned out be�a far worse President than anyone could have�imagined. We elected a man who lied to start a war. We elected a man�who roled back civil liberties for Americans and denied basic human rights to our enemies. We elected�man who inceased the deficit and left�the economy in ruins with his laissez-faire let the corporations police themselves kind of economics.�
So this election I will vote for the man I think will make best President regardless of his�religious beliefs. I will not vote for one or the other candidate because of one issue. I will consider the issues as a whole. I donapos;t like Obamaapos;s�stand on abortion, and I never will. However before McCain realized�he needed to pander�to�the religious right he was pro-abortion too. And McCain� would place�one of the most inexperienced�vice-presidential nominees a heartbeat from the�center seat. Paulin has�limited experience�as a mayor and governor.�And that is being generous. Her knowledge on foreign policy�is slim to none and she seems to think that drilling will solve our energy crisis. �Paulin is not qualified to be President.�And with a President in his 70apos;s who has battled cancer in the past I am not willing to risk a Paulin Presidency.�
Maybe Obama will turn out�to be a horrible�choice.� But I doubt it. He wants to tax those who can most afford it. That sounds fair to me. The middle class is America. And yet over the last two decades our wages have stagnated while Corporate CEOapos;s who owe their jobs�to�good ol boy networks and personalities (minus the brains) have reaped millions in compensation while driving their corporations into�the ground. The wealthy can afford to�pay higher taxes. The middle class struggles to send their children to school and pay�for health insurance. They need the tax breaks, not the wealthy.�
Obama wants to make health coverage affordable�for Americans. In the United States almost 50�million people are uninsured or underinsured. This is ridiculous.�We are the�wealthiest nation in the world�and�not�everyone here can afford to go to the�doctor. Prescription drugs are outrageously expensive. Why?�A number of�reasons not all the�fault of corporations but you can bet greed figures into it. Every American has a right�to affordable, basic health coverage.�
Senator Obama�merely by being elected will change�world opinion of the United States. Our standing�has suffered tremendously�with other nations in�the past eight years.�Just by electing him, we are telling�the rest of the world�that we are changing directions. We need to change directions in our foreign policy. We have made too many enemies. We�have lost allies. We have spread our focus too thin (Iraq) wihout completing our main objectives (such as catching Bin Ladin). �The Bush�doctrine�has been�a failure; it has made our nation less secure instead of more secure.�
The last eight years have been years of greed and deregulation. Corporations take for granted the hard working�employees who make them money. Pensions have been replaced by 401-Kapos;s loaded down with company stock. Health�coverage has been�eliminated or�premiums have increased. This is what has�happened to employees fortunate enough to not have had their jobs shipped overseas in an effort to cut costs. �Deregulation has benefited the corporations in the shortrun while in the long run it has undermined the economy and brought us to the greatest financial disaster since the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Obama will increase regulation hold corporations accountable (or at least more accountable than the Republicans).
So I will vote for Obama. I may not agree with everything he stands for but as a whole I agree with his policies more than McCainapos;s and I think he is the best man for the job.
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