Is the election over yet? The presidential election of 2008 is almost over. I think it’s about time. I do not know if I can take anymore of McCain, Obama, and Palin. I do not think that I can listen to all the non-issues. Do we know what McCain and Obama want to do or how they will change the country for the better? Will one of them please answer the questions and not sidestep them. In my opinion, I do not really think that either candidate is qualified or exciting. America today is so inundated by political ads and by all the speeches that do not matter. People in a decade will look back at this election and not know why the things that the candidates and the media said were important. If you ask me, I think that this is one of the least important elections in recent history. Whoever gets elected inherits a bad situation that will make them look even worse the Bush. The candidates do not seem prepared to take on the economy or the war on terror. I foresee dark times ahead for this country, whoever the president may be. People think that a new president will be able to change everything very quickly back to the way things used to be. But even if the future president wants to pass a law, Congress probably will choose to not back him, even if Obama wins and there are Democrats in Congress. The Congress will probably not support the president's ideas because they will know that Obama or McCain have far fetched ideas.I think that the only people who know how to run the country are only those who have actually been president. No one else knows how hard it is to run the country like they do.
One thing that I find disturbing is that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been forgotten. None of the candidates will touch it. In fact, I think that they are relieved that the economy stinks because they do not have to talk about the war. How can the candidates only talk about domestic issues when there is a war going on. It is almost like the war in Iraq is the war that is not happening since no one, even those who could influence change, do not have a clue about the way to get out of the war without making the United States look bad. This is a real issue and I cannot fathom why it is not talked about.
I know one thing. Their is going to be talk about Decision 2012 the second either Obama or McCain win the election.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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I think your view is overwhelming pessimistic for the president-elect. Both candidates had made their views what they would have enacted. You could have viewed their stance on major issues that ran the gamut of education to the war in Iraq on their websites.
I do not agree with you on the candidates were sidestepping the major issues. Both candidates, along with the American public, are fully aware of the developing financial crisis. Our fears have been echoed in our sinking retirement plans and the reductio ad absurdum belief that we’ll be soon dwelling in hoovervilles. The financial issue is the primary problem the public is facing, not the distant and unjustified war in Iraq.
Could you please quantify who you believe is “qualified” in the role of president? You’ve stated that you disliked both candidates, but failed to elaborate on what traits define a good president. You had also made the claim that previous presidents only know how to run the county and I'm of the belief that this does not qualify or give merit to our current commander-in-chief based on the examples of the botched Katrina disaster and the baseless Iraq war.
This election is historic on many levels by just looking at the context of our current situation: We’re currently engaged in costly wars on two fronts, the United States is in a major financial crisis, unemployment rates are the highest they’ve been in 14 years, and to the rest of the world the ideal of America had distorted from the protector to the bully. Barack Obama will be the first black president in an age that people still have recent memories of the civil rights movement. I believe that's enough to deem it historic. It’s refreshing to think that someone has thoughts on getting us out of this ever-deepening hole, instead of using a “dig-deeper” approach.
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