I'm a political science major and I'm getting tired of all the political talk, but I love hearing a different view point (the majority of my fellow poli sci-ers are Obama supporters, so I really don't hear much from the other side).
The economy, personally, I think that it's slightly unfair to ask either candidates about how they would fix the economic crisis. Fixing the problem isn't just about stopping spending it's about other things. What they could promise to do is reinstall the safety measures that Roosevelt installed during the Depression and that both parties dismantled these past decade or so. AIG (AGI) is an insurance company, they shouldn't be playing in the stock market. Roosevelt made things like that a big no no. There should be more regulation. Neither men addressed the issue of stopping outsourcing. That would create hundred of thousands if not millions of jobs in the U.S.
From my interpretation, Obama wants to help small business people and those who cannot afford health care; only those people would be eligible for government health care. I wouldn't get it because I have health care through my university and my mother wouldn't get it because she's ensured through the business she words for. You can't forget that Obama didn't really have time to explain. You can only say so much in the time given. I would think that there would be safeguards ensuring that large corporations can't shove off their employees onto the government.
As for McCain's veteran and POW past. I personally despise it when things like that are used the manipulate the public. I'll agree with you that McCain understands the consequences of war more than Obama does, but just because he fought in a war doesn't make him more capable of dealing with a war. The war against terrorists is not a traditional war. It isn't like WWI or WWII. I don't think blowing them up and fighting a physical war is going to cut it. Not totally, it's a war of ideals. A war of propaganda. Their ideals against ours. They hate us, the western world. You don't stop hate by killing them. I hate to say it, but I don't think McCain gets it and probably not even Obama.
Just because McCain fought in a war doesn't mean his cornered the market on knowing what's worth fighting for and what isn't. Brutal military force isn't going to cut it with the war on terror. We've got to show the world that the U.S. isn't a bully. That our gut reaction isn't violence.
Palin. She's not a feminist and I'm insulted that she'd think of herself as one. I'm sorry but someone who wouldn't allow a woman to get an abortion if she was raped that's horrible. That would be 9 months of emotional rape. I'm Pro-Choice and I simply can't stand the thought that the government or an individual thinks that they have the power to tell me what to do with my body.
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The economy, personally, I think that it's slightly unfair to ask either candidates about how they would fix the economic crisis. Fixing the problem isn't just about stopping spending it's about other things. What they could promise to do is reinstall the safety measures that Roosevelt installed during the Depression and that both parties dismantled these past decade or so. AIG (AGI) is an insurance company, they shouldn't be playing in the stock market. Roosevelt made things like that a big no no. There should be more regulation. Neither men addressed the issue of stopping outsourcing. That would create hundred of thousands if not millions of jobs in the U.S.
From my interpretation, Obama wants to help small business people and those who cannot afford health care; only those people would be eligible for government health care. I wouldn't get it because I have health care through my university and my mother wouldn't get it because she's ensured through the business she words for. You can't forget that Obama didn't really have time to explain. You can only say so much in the time given. I would think that there would be safeguards ensuring that large corporations can't shove off their employees onto the government.
As for McCain's veteran and POW past. I personally despise it when things like that are used the manipulate the public. I'll agree with you that McCain understands the consequences of war more than Obama does, but just because he fought in a war doesn't make him more capable of dealing with a war. The war against terrorists is not a traditional war. It isn't like WWI or WWII. I don't think blowing them up and fighting a physical war is going to cut it. Not totally, it's a war of ideals. A war of propaganda. Their ideals against ours. They hate us, the western world. You don't stop hate by killing them. I hate to say it, but I don't think McCain gets it and probably not even Obama.
Just because McCain fought in a war doesn't mean his cornered the market on knowing what's worth fighting for and what isn't. Brutal military force isn't going to cut it with the war on terror. We've got to show the world that the U.S. isn't a bully. That our gut reaction isn't violence.
Palin. She's not a feminist and I'm insulted that she'd think of herself as one. I'm sorry but someone who wouldn't allow a woman to get an abortion if she was raped that's horrible. That would be 9 months of emotional rape. I'm Pro-Choice and I simply can't stand the thought that the government or an individual thinks that they have the power to tell me what to do with my body.