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Jo Stewart
ESSAY #6
ENGL 1A
December 10, 2008

Who to Choose in Times of Despair

On November 4, 2008 many Americans will have to face a very hard challenge. Every four years, Americans engage in the challenge of selecting a person whom we will eventually just grow to dislike in the next 4 to 8 years, depending on our tolerance and patients we carry together as a one Nation. People are mainly concerned about the economy and Iraq. They are spending the majority of their time worrying about the economic decline that all have the news, and magazines are talking about. Considering, while under the leadership of President Bush, on September 11, 2001, America was attacked on its own soil for the first time since Pearl Harbor. As this war on terror continues, we are scared for what will happen next with the fatal decision we are about to take that will soon influence our future. Of all the elections, this one was by far the most interesting to me. Not only because whom we elect is going to make the most important decisions for our country, in reference to the economic crisis, the closings of small and large businesses around the world, and not to mention, gas prices.
“According to the National Governors Association, more than 40 states are facing a combined $26 billion shortfall this year,” said Justin Ewers with the Us News. Many Assemblies are falling as many states are falling into debt. He also states, “..city government of L.A. is facing it’s most challenging financial times since the depression, holding devastating impact on city revenues and the national economic thundercloud continues to grow. But everything has to get worse before it can get better right?
This year our candidates ranged from sex and age to race and ethnicity. For the first time since Martin Luther King, we have an African American man speaking aloud for our country. Therefore, leaving many people undecided about whom to vote for the 2008 Presidential Elections. According to the nation, to be an American citizen, it is my responsibility to choose the best candidate for the 2008 election ballot.
The first candidate is from the Republican Party, John Sidney McCain, a 72-year old white male American. McCain served in the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 until 1981 when he retired as captain in the Navy. Many people see this as a good thing, military experience, because it means responsibility and power. Working in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1982 and being involved in the Senate Commerce Committee his whole life, sharing his believes on the way he things our country should be ran. For our country, McCain has promised many things, He wants to keep the tax cuts, helping the middle class, and he wants to double the personal exemption for dependents. He wants to take taxes and pay the big companies of America. According to Wharton, “McCain’s proposals rely on private sector solutions, McCain is trying to serve George Q. Bush’s third term – only more irresponsibility.” He wants to build nuclear reactors and reduce Medicare. He also promises to eliminate paying for the projects that are helping our communities to be able to put money back into peoples` taxes, and back into their pockets. He is just going to end up spending more money than we have available. Some Americans think that some of his ideas are in the wrong state of mind, because he isn’t considering that we are in debt as a country. He isn’t considering that we need to be saving money and saving supplies, like gas, and ammo, and soldiers. Apparently Marston said “There is no way all of he cuts will be extended now that the political winds have shifted, McCain isn’t able to articulate which of his proposed tax cuts is most important, leaving voters unclear of the economic vision.”
The second candidate is 47-year old Barack Hussein Obama, an African American man whom graduated from Harvard Law School and worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney from 1997- 2004. As a member of the Democratic Party, during this campaign Obama shows his strengths to be a president as he listens to everyone’s opinions and suggestions to consider before making his final decisions. According to Michael Hirsh from the NEWSWEEK, “He said, 'Hold it, we'll do that later. You guys are here to help me figure out what we should be doing'" to solve the crisis.” In relations to Obama’s speech and how he didn’t want to talk about the politics or the economist’s, but talk about what he can do to help the people, as he’s for the people. Obama promises to make school for college students’ more affordable, he also wants to redeploy the soldiers of Iraq and settle in peace. Obama wants to stop working on missile defense systems and put the money back into our pockets to be able to help us with everyday expenses. According to Marston, “Obama wants to let the Bush administration’s tax cuts expire, as scheduled, at the end of 2010 and provide new tax breaks for low-income workers, senior citizens, students and start-up companies.” Obama wants to help teachers with expenses and stable jobs over their heads. He wants to make sure that people aren’t suffering without money. He is the man that is trying to help out the people in everyday life rather than the society like his opposing candidate. Some things that people don’t like about Obama is how he is a man of color, which people shouldn’t be being racist, it’s about time we have a change in our presidency and this is the lead that will help Obama throughout the election. Pack says “as for Obama, he outlined to spend $15 billion a year for 10 years on energy technology funded by collected revenue,” meaning the money he is going to spend will be put back into our hands eventually after its processed through the energy funds.
Although both of these candidates are good people to be trustworthy and appropriate for the intense job responsibilities as the President of the United States, only one man can take the title. At that, it is a very important title, because the President will determine the inclines or declines of the economic status to come. This is where everyone comes to a halt, a sudden drop of the jaw, a sigh, thinking they’re both good candidates in their own separate ways, but how to come to a decision? Obama is the ideal American man to consider for President because he puts his self on our level by trying to relate to problems that we are facing today in society. I think this is a very important thing to have in a president, because we need someone who is going to try to relate to us, and how we feel, and also someone who is going to take care of our country during these hard times. He explains his stories things that have happened to many people throughout the country, they can relate, and that makes an easy going, open-eared person. With the economic status and the war going on for so long, Obama is promising us to help take these rising problems into consideration and help out America. He is also trying to help students and the youth of America with debt and currency issues. While on the other hand, McCain is trying to help the rich people, the big companies trying to save money on taxes. He wants to end the war “the right way” and continue in battling Iraq until they give up or forfeit.
So as you can see, this is a very hard election for some people to face, because there are so many different misleading ideas to try to make people choose quickly, although many people want to make sure that they conquer this choice wisely because it will determine the next four years of how our country will be ran. It will determine the money that we spend as a nation and it will also determine the way that we as Americans are going to make it threw the next four years. People are scared that if they choose the wrong person, we will continue to be stuck in Iraq for war, and we will continue to pay so much money for taxes each year. We are scared that we will, as students, have o continue to pay such high amounts to the schools to be successful in life. We as a country, one nation, want the right decision because we all want a change. This election has such a huge impact on what is going to happen though out life. This is why people are undecided on whom to choose for the 2008 elections.



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