Why vote Obama 08′?

I have listened and read enough on the multiple clarifications of “why” the current four politicians seek the vote of the common United States voter.  It is clear that each one have their own agenda’s.  Though I have read and listened time and time again about why each of them should or shouldn’t be voted in…even more points considering the lack of experience, but in the direction this nation is headed what experience does one need to make change?

 

Really if you think about it everyone has plans and goals to achieve this overall change, but they spend more time bashing each other.  Two specific candidates Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain have continued to cause problems for Mr. Obama as the elections continue to press forward.  Is it not clear what Mr. Obama’s opponents have their fears about concerning this election?

 

Unfortunately, it is true!  Even if you sit and wish to deny it they have spent a lot of thought into what they say against him.  Barack Obama’s approach is no different really then John Kerry’s four years ago, but Mr. Obama presents himself as a politician of change.  A politician that realizes this process of change is not him at all and he admits that.  His honesty, yes is obvious, but we as people complain every year of a candidate sharing the truth.  We get that candidate and we believe “He is too good to be true?”  Really?

 

I mean if any politician has stated over and over again that he recognizes that he is asking something that a conscience may not be able to comprehend because we are so engrained to consider the realistic sense of Washington.  The inability to do what the people want.  Yet no other candidate has even considered the thought of taking this approach since John F. Kennedy!  Mr. Obama’s style approaching this entire election drives the “American Dream” the underdog inside us all that wish to battle from the underground and build forward.

 

His approach is similar to not just John F. Kennedy, but Jimmy Carter and is not to far fetch from John Edwards.  His speeches and beliefs revival that of John F. Kennedy, many of his humanitarian and foreign policies relate to Jimmy Carter.  His healthcare and educational plans heavily relate to John Edwards though many voters discredit John Edwards for those ideas.  So what is threatening about Mr. Obama that both Hilary Clinton and John McCain could find their campaign packing up and calling it quits?

 

Hilary Clinton has for one made herself to be someone by her standards “the most qualified and best deserving”.  Confidence is one thing, but when you have a spouse that holds two major scandals while he was in the White House the fact of your background becomes much clearly dividable between them both.  She is falling slowly and will not recover because Barack Obama has ensured to always stay on the defensive.  So much in fact Hilary has had to fire certain campaign managers to balance her ability to compete.  Beyond that, her plan, if you carefully compare it to a former President resembles her husband’s when he was in office.

 

Furthermore, her demons in general make Hilary Clinton unable to stand firm on particular topics when she flip flops on over 14 different voting platforms in the last 16 years of “experience”.

 

John McCain has illustrated his veteran status as if he has become the next Audie Murphy.  He should have sat down with John Kerry and realized his salutes and his past as a naval officer stands little in the eyes of the average American watching corporations get aboard a ship to another country.  McCain’s plan to fix it was find new corporations?  What new corporations?  The economy can’t support the move or such notion.  His foreign policy is ripped straight from the Bush Administration and his laziness for the economy issue has made McCain flip flop and say that he now agrees with the President’s budget plan and certain tax cuts.  Tax cuts in the nature of the bill presented sounded decent, but in the long term do not solve the nation’s dilemma and have many long term holes.

 

Though what they all fear…even Huckabee…is the fact that Obama has just enough experience to be talented enough to do the job, the grit under his nails not to long ago…many very new voters of 18 years of age might have been in single digits when he did many of these community projects.  Obama has the ability to out debate and strategize openly with little slip up, and ultimately the guy gives speeches that will be echoed into history the way men of the 1940’s and 1960’s perfected the movement of hope, freedom, change, and a better life.  John Edwards couldn’t succeed though his plans relate because he does not move or motivate people.

 

In conclusion, my point is that beyond being a woman, a man, racist, anti-Christ, cultist, hater, or pessimistic in the end the vote that goes to Obama comes from people that are not brainwashed or have a younger crowd turn out come election day, but the man or woman who can provide purpose, motivate, influence, direct, and simply lead….He may not have all the background of any opponents he is up against, he may not be able to claim the “A” typical heritage of an American back from the 1700’s, or have the connection to achieving some greater plan in Iraq. 

 

Barack Obama also may never satisfy each and every one of our needs, but he has lectured over and over again that he knows this.  He wants American’s to recognize that a nation is falling apart and holding onto by the seams.  Barack Obama governs the way people not just listen too, aspire to become, or even wish to follow.  It has nothing to do with any of that…He makes you consider a nation that is possible.  Places the burden on everyone and tells everyone “If you choose to elect me; your electing yourself because these policies will only work with “self” existence…and the very bridge that built this nation in the beginning and the very meaning of leadership…Motivation, Influence, Purpose…Self Direction!

One Comment

  1. Jim, great thoughts on the political race. It’s funny how what you said in February is coming true now.. the fact that Hillary won’t get the nomination because her husband is so radioactive.

    I met Obama and shook his hand a few weeks ago at his speech where he declared victory with a majority of delegates (before he secured the nomination) in Des Moines, IA. He carries a presence with him that is reminiscent of MLK. The feeling I had when watching his speech was amazing. It was a feeling of hope, and I felt like I was witnessing history in the making. It’s amazing to have experienced and shook the hand of possibly the first african american president. I’ve got photos of facebook, if you want to check em out.

    Email me sometime bro.

    Steve


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