If you are still wonder who Barack Obama is, here is his biography video. He’s a regular guy. He’s an American, a public servant, a husband and father. He is steady, even-tempered and cool under pressure. He sticks to the issues and only hits back when the McCain campaign throws the first punch.
Barack Obama embodies my values, my dreams, my ideals. He represents who America should be, where we as a country need to go in the future and has the plans to get us there. He calls us to action like Presidents John F. Kennedy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt did when our country needed to pull together and work toward the betterment of all Americans.
One thing that makes Barack Obama a very unique candidate is he is not only a lawyer, he taught Constitutional Law as a Professor for several years. We have not had a President since America’s Founding Fathers who knows so much about the Constitution and how it works. I would find it extremely refreshing to have a President who understands what a Supreme Court Justice is actually supposed to do and why so he can appoint the best judges to the most important court in our country.
For further information about Barack Obama, his ideas and how he thinks, you can also read his book:
If you watched to second Presidential debate Tuesday night, you heard Barack Obama give a call to action to the American people about the energy crisis.
Finally, a candidate calling the people to action!
Obama said all Americans must do our part to help solve the energy crisis. We all must do whatever we can to conserve energy and use alternative forms of energy instead of oil.
As John F. Kennedy said
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country!
Barack Obama finally said what we can do not only for our country, but for the world: conserve energy and use alternative fuels. So let’s get to it:
Combine car trips and drive less
Walk or bike where you can
Turn up the thermostat in the summer
Turn down the thermostat in the winter
Open windows instead of heating or air-conditioning in spring and fall
Turn off lights you’re not using
As you change burned-out light bulbs, convert some to compact fluorescent bulbs where it makes sense
Recycle
Buy cars with better gas mileage, hybrids, or that use alternative fuels entirely
It’s time for a new Apollo Project, but this time it’s for energy independence.
What are you doing to conserve energy? Please leave your ideas in the comments.
I have been wracking my brain for weeks trying to figure out why in the world John McCain would choose Sarah Palin as his running mate.
She’s basically ignorant of most issues, though don’t underestimate her, she’s smart.
She’s ignorant of a great deal of American history and politics that a lot of us have come to expect most people to know.
She has practically no experience.
She’s clearly not ready to step up and be President should, God forbid, something happen to John McCain early in his term of office.
She is a social conservative and she is young, two things McCain had to deal with on his ticket. Some also see Palin as a maverick, something McCain hasn’t been much lately.
So why pick Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska as a running mate?
Thoughts about Palin, the VP debate last Thursday, what Palin said about wanting to emulate current VP Richard Cheney, and John McCain’s very pro-Bush voting record have been buzzing around in my head. I’ve been trying to make sense of all this and it’s been beyond me. I was out working in the yard just now, letting my thoughts flow freely, and it came to me.
Sarah Palin is from one of the states in the Union that has some of America’s biggest untapped oil reserves. I looked it up and Governor Palin has some strong connections to big oil. She is not much of an environmentalist so taking protections away that currently keep big oil from drilling in many parts of Alaska would be something she would work toward.
McCain is another George W. Bush, but to pull it off, who does he get to play the part of Dick Cheney? The governor of a big oil state.
McCain-Palin aren’t just more of the same, they are exactly the same as Bush-Cheney. McCain will continue the policies of the George W. Bush administration and groom a young, healthy version of Dick Cheney for the Presidency in the 2012 election.
Any talk of alternative energy research and development from this proposed administration, I believe, is just that, talk. There will be drilling and nothing else. The big oil companies will have the opportunity to rape the pristine areas of Alaska that have been protected. Big oil will continue to run the country at just the time in American history when we need to stop investing in oil and start working on lots of alternatives to our energy needs. Their profits will skyrocket, and middle-class America will go broke paying higher and higher gas prices.
It would be a second Halliburton administration designed to continue what Bush-Cheney started.
I’ve been in a quandary about who to support in the upcoming U.S. Presidential election: Hillary Clinton, John McCain, or Barack Obama. Senator Obama won the democratic nomination for that party’s presidential candidate. Senator McCain seems to have won the republican nomination because he stayed the course longer than all his opponents.
Senator McCain is a Vietnam war hero and knows first hand the demands of an unpopular war. Senator Obama is young, hasn’t served in the military, but is prepared for new ideas in a new and fast-changing world, a world that is far more global than we would ever have imagined just 20 years ago. Personally, I correspond with people on different continents on a weekly basis with extremely little effort. It’s as easy talking with them as it is with my family just one state over. I don’t believe Senator McCain truly appreciates the power of the internet, globalization and that we are no longer an isolated country with isolated interests that only apply to us. What applies to us applies to many other peoples in countries all over the world.
I still don’t know who I will vote for or who would make the better president. But the following video by Senator Obama is compelling. It carries new ideas for a sound strategy in the present based on lessons learned from World War II, the rebuilding of Europe and the formation of the Soviet block. I have always believed that those who fail to learn their history are doomed to repeat it. Senator Obama clearly shows he has learned some important history lessons and is prepared to implement those lessons in ways that apply to our present challenges.
However, I’m not sure Senator Obama is sincere or if this is political rhetoric just to get votes. I have a problem with Michelle Obama only recently becoming proud to be an American. I’ve never had a single doubt that everyone in John McCain’s family is and always has been proud to be an American. Senator McCain is a war hero and was a POW. Two of his sons are serving in the military right now, but I’m not hearing anyone in his campaign mentioning it, let alone bragging about it. They are quietly doing their duty to their country as their father did. Senator Obama has no personal experience of war, the demands of war or the horrors of war. If we were not at war this decision would be much easier, but we are in a war, an unpopular war, and that complicates the whole decision extremely for me.
Neither Senator’s voting record is stellar. Senator Obama has voted multiple times to end the war in Iraq without winning it, and Senator McCain has been absent from voting on some important legislation because of his campaign schedule. It seems running for president and being a senator conflict with each other substantially. I don’t have a solution for the problem. I only know it’s a fact.
The speech is 37 minutes long. I hope you will watch it and listen carefully to Senator Obama’s goals, plan and strategy for the 21st century.
Please leave your thoughts in the comments. I encourage an open discussion, both pro and con, because what we face as a nation and a planet hang in the balance. We must get it right.
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