Presidential Election ‘08

Presidential Election ‘08
Who should the be the next president of the United States?

When election day comes, who have you decided to give your vote to? Better yet, what are your reasons why you will be voting for either Barack Obama or John McCain? Before you stand by the whole black vs. white when you look at these two, make your decisions off what might be best the country. My main focuses are the education and the Iraq issue. When Obama takes the title of president to make a change, what might he do about the our education? When McCain gets in to office and wants to make a difference, what might he do about the soldiers in Iraq?

First of all, Barack Obama wants to do a lot for this country, he’s always talking about change. He discusses a lot about education and has already told what he will being doing for the Iraq issue. Obama speaks strongly about making college affordable. The average student would have to pay at least thirty thousand dollars to at least attend college. Obama wants tuition tax credits for all college students so that college is a little last affordable. He also wants to improve public schools. Obama would like to make science and math education a national priority. He wants to organize effective teachers for success and reward the them for their expertise as a teacher. The law called, No Child Left Behind, has flaws that needs to be taken care of before applying again. There is so much that Obama wants to do for the early childhood education, high school, and college education. When Obama get in to office, he speaks about withdrawing all combat brigades, one or two combat brigades a month, from Iraq in his first 16 months. He opposed going in to war in ‘02. Barack Obama really does want to make a change.

Next, John McCain wants to make a difference just as Barack Obama does. The way he goes about doing so, is really different though. It seems as though McCain is strongly attached to the education issue too but is not as positive. Simply stating that parents should just move students out of failing schools. He wants to determine how teachers will be paid by their performances, not just having a standard pay and raising it for good performances. Basically he’s saying that, good teachers need to be rewarded and bad teachers need to find a new job. He supports the law, No Child Left Behind and thinks that it should be udated. But he believes that it’s only just the beginning of education modification. The way he wants to handle the Iraq issue when he gets in to office would be, withdrawing only if Iraq is secure. He wants to not waste any more time on trying to get our soldiers out of Iraq but McCain does not believe in a withdrawal timetable. McCain was all for the war against Iraq in ‘02. John McCain also wants to make a difference.

To sum it all up, Barack Obama and John McCain are two strong competitors when it comes to making a bigger and better change for this country. For the education issue, both of the two, has great thoughts on how that would run the education system. They both agree to reward skillful teachers for there performances and expertise. Also, they agree that the law, No Child Left Behind, is a good one but needs improvement. I agree with both Obama and McCain, if a teacher is suppose to be the educator, and the performance is just not there, then what is there to approve of. Parents send off their child to come back home and enlighten them. Education has to improve and they have a great look on what it is suppose to be. Obama and McCain may have agreed a little on the education issue but they absolutely differ when talking about the Iraq issue. Obama wants to withdrawal solders in a timetable, McCain has no timetable. Barack opposed going to war in ‘02, McCain supported the war. I agree with Obama one hundred percent. He has made hope for both the soldiers and their families about the arrival back to the country with the timetable. Also, who supports a harsh and deadly war when it comes to mostly sending our Americans over to be killed.

In conclusion, Barack Obama has his mind set to make a change and John McCain has his mind set to make a difference when they get in to office. When Barack Obama gets in to office, what are more changes that will come about? When John McCain gets in to office, he wants to make a difference, will he actually do just that? So when voting day comes, you have more than one reason to stand by Obama other then, he’s black. More one reason to stand by McCain, other then he’s a former solider. So many reasons and people only choose the ones that are less important then the ones that are extremely important. When voting day comes I know actually who I will be voting for because I stand by good reasons.