America's debacle & so called "debate"

I honestly haven't paid much attention to the issues in this year's election, nor the views of either candidate. I pretty much just read what I have to read, and write about it expressing my opinions. Until recently, when the biggest and most important national issue of our time began to rise, since the Great Depression in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. The $700 billion bailout grant of Wall Street is crumbling our entire economy and affecting every single American citizen age 5 to 95. Personally, I think it's all ridiculous. There is no way Americans can be responsible for paying the money to bail out stupid elite economists. Aside from the crashing stock market and increasing gas prices, it is already a struggle for most Americans to survive and take care of a family. How can ANYONE afford to pay more taxes?? Except for the over-paid "Wall Street Ballers", as MTV called them in their hit show, "Fabulous Life Of..." According to the show, with research and comparison, nobody makes more and spends more money than the highest ranking investors and financiers of Wall Street. SO why should we have to bail out the richest people in the country? Why can't they all just give a portion of their outrageous salaries and bonuses to our economy? Because that would be too easy, and our country, government, and economy has turned into a complete debacle!

When I first heard that McCain was thinking about choosing not to take part in the debate because he wanted to focus more on the economic crisis, I thought to myself, what a chicken! [not the exact words I would use] On the other hand, Obama said he was capable of participating in the debate, AND taking care of the economy. Of coarse he just said that to look better than McCain, and it worked. After the Presidential Debate Friday night, my opinion on who won the overall debate was Barack Obama. When it comes to the candidates performances in the debates, I thought it was rude how they both would interrupt, bicker, and talk over each other. But I thought it was a poor tactic of McCain to not make any kind of eye contact with Obama, possibly in fear of becoming nervous or outraged. It was also an annoyance how he continuously referred to his age, 72, his experience, and how trustworthy he is. It seemed as if both candidates were talking to the camera's, never "debating" with each other and McCain talked like he was lecturing Obama. They never directly answered a question that was asked, they stated the problem and then sort of went around it and got distracted on certain policies. AOL held a poll September 30Th on which candidate was more on the offensive. Out of 23,120 voters, %62 said McCain was on the offensive all night. Obama's quote towards McCain has always been, "He just doesn't get it", while McCain's new quote towards Obama is, "He doesn't understand about the world." How swift and smart of McCain to simply use synonyms of Obama's quote. Both candidates realize they have different views, obviously, but it's not necessary to call each other unintelligent or inexperienced. It seems to me that in this election, the two candidates just continue to bash each other in a childish and unprofessional manner. I suppose that is the reason why I cannot choose who I would vote for, otherwise I would simply write down Obama's name because I strongly dislike McCain.

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The most recent popular topic in our government has been the proposal for a $700 billion dollar bailout in our economy; “the most sweeping government intervention into the nation’s financial markets since the Great Depression.” Today, on September 29, the House of Representatives rejected the proposal, with a 228-205 vote, refusing to grant the Treasury Department the power to purchase this much money. Within the House, 95 Democrats and 133 Republicans opposed the bill, while 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans supported the controversial grant. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California delivered a “partisan” speech at the end of today’s debate, stating that the $700 billion is in need because of “the costs of the Bush administration’s failed economic policies.” House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio claimed that Pelosi’s speech “poisoned” the conference, and other leaders claimed that her speech “turned off” many Republicans. President George W. Bush was very disappointed in the refusal vote, but is still willing to address the economic issue right away. John McCain’s senior policy advisor Doug Holtz-Eakin issued a statement, after the bill had been rejected, that blamed Barack Obama and Pelosi. Republicans knew that had little support for the bill, but there is no reason for either party to act childish and blame one another, it doesn’t do any good. It is said that no lawmaker wants to approve a large bailout that was made necessary by the “mistakes of Wall Street financiers and the mortgage industry.” Aside from the rejection of this grant, other economic troubles arose today with news of Citigroup purchasing Wachovia Bank, and the Dow Jones Industrial average in the stock market had dropped by a significant amount of points. Although the bill was denied, if nothing is done soon to save the financial depression in our economy, the outcome is going to be a lot worse. But I don’t think taking money out of every American’s pocket is the answer; the majority of American’s cannot afford it anyways.

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While reading current political events from The Washington Post newspaper online, I found an interesting article titled, “Obama Backers from D.C. Go West: Volunteers Target Voters in Winchester.” This article jumps out at me is because it is involving Barack Obama and takes place close to our area, besides, the few others I read about John McCain seemed boring to me. The story in this article takes place in Virginia, where almost 300 people carpooling in cars, vans, and buses, traveled from Washington D.C. to areas west and south such as Leesburg, Manassas, Centreville, Woodbridge, Winchester, and Fredericksburg, to recruit Obama voters. The diverse group of Democratic volunteers, including teachers, students, teenagers, lawyers, etc., knocked on over 80,000 doors, facing much rejection but also many who were interested in learning more about the Barack Obama Campaign. I think these volunteers were definitely challenging themselves, since the state of Virginia has not voted Democratic in a presidential election in over 40 years. I also think it is great to have such a large crowd that is willing to take time out of their daily lives, to put forth such an effort to raise votes for Barack Obama. Voicing their opinion on such a major event in our history and for the future shows others that political activism does not just involve donating money, for example. This article was great to post because it may increase the efforts of those who may be afraid to go out and campaign for Obama and it has a chance of increasing the votes for the Democratic Party.

who would i vote for???

First of all, I don't know much about the two candidates in the 2008 election for Presidency and honestly, I don't care too much either. From my perspective, neither candidate deserves to be president. Obama doesn't have a lot of experience and in a major national crisis, I don't think he'd make the right decisions for our country, and I think there's a chance he could lead us into more and more problems in our economy. For the Republican candidate, I seriously think McCain is too old and if anything were to ever happen to him, I think Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin wouldn't be strong enough to handle the duties of presidency, and putting a female into office is a BIG step for the United States. I am in no way trying to be sexist, but I just don't think a female should be in charge of our country and from personal experience, females have WACKY emotions and can be very unstable. Especially some of the drama within her personal life that has been brought into the media, do we honestly want all that into the white house??? I don't think so.
Although I dislike both candidates, for the exact opposite reasons, if I was 18, I would probably vote for Barack Obama. He caught my attention through the Democratic Convention, when he made his acceptance speech. The way he spoke and addressed the audience was impressive to me and from an upfront appearance, he seems like the better candidate.
Obama's belief on same sex marriage is that "marriage is between a man and a woman" but he also believes that it's against an Americans rights to be banned from loving someone of the same sex. Obama voted against a Constitutional amendment proposed in 2006 that wanted to ban gay marriage and he also supports civil unions for gay couples. Who's to tell a person they cannot love another person? Since when is government in charge of the love life of an American? I think it would be wrong for the Constitution to have an amendment banning gay rights and I believe that it is a person's freedom to make their own decisions, and it is NO ONE else's business what they choose.