Why McCain Will Win
Why McCain Will Win
I don’t know what it is about this year, but the media seems to have taken a keen interest in this election. I have never witnessed such a dramatic following of the candidates and their rivalry in my life. The election is seven months away, a time when serious planning begins. Once the primaries start, then the election begins in full swing or that is, the case in every previous election. However, this election has been going on for years, almost since the beginning of our current president’s four-year term.
Moreover, the candidates are not the only ones causing this to be such a dramatic election; the media plays it out to be something more than it is. The exact reason for the vastness of this election in particular is mostly unknown, but my personal belief is that the media is a very left wing driven group that is tired of dealing with President Bush and the War on Iraq. They think that he has screwed things up and getting someone else in there is going to “fix the problem.” Therefore, the Democratic Party has two especially intriguing candidates that they believe can take hold of this situation and do what they feel is right to get the correct person in office.
Let us begin with the first and most widely known candidate, Senator Barack Obama. Obama believes himself to be the savior that our nation needs. He thinks that because of his senatorial status, he has the knowledge and power to run a world power. Let me begin by pointing out that our current president, George Bush, has a few more credentials than Obama could ever begin to accomplish. He was in the National Guard for a number of years; he was the Governor of the state of Texas. He dealt with one of the most terroristic and grueling attacks on American soil; a time in which his support was at its highest. We must not forget that Obama has only been in the political scene for a few years. Every action that Obama makes is what many call “another brush stroke on the canvas of a man who burst onto the national scene less than four years ago and about whom we know very little.” The nation’s people like President Bush, they like a man that is able to deal with issues that need it most simply because he has the experience and has done it before, not because he says he is capable of doing it. The old expression, “Actions speak louder than words,” is most perfectly appropriate here.
“After all, if you wanted to invent the ideal candidate for a post-9/11 world, you couldn’t do much better than Obama: his parents’ brave interracial marriage, their tragically broken home, the early years experiencing religious and cultural diversity in Indonesia, then on to a fancy private prep school in Hawaii, Harvard Law, and, for good measure, a dollop of good old-fashioned Chicago machine/ward-heeler bare-knuckled politics. No wonder a first-term senator with no particular qualifications or accomplishments realized that he could run for president!”
Peter Wehner, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Initiatives, stated that, “With increasing frequency, the 46-year-old one-term senator from Illinois orates as though he resides at Olympian Heights. By his presumptuous demeanor, he suggests that he sees what no one else sees, and can do what no other person can do; he is America’s healing balm.” And this statement is never truer.
Obama has trapped himself into many holes that he struggles to distant himself from. One of the first of which arouse in the midst of statements his church pastor made that contradicted his beliefs and ideals brought to the presidential race. Senator Obama is most widely known for his complete “renewal” of our nation. Thomas Sowell states “While talking about bringing us together and deploring “divisive” actions, Senator Obama has for 20 years been a member of a church whose minister, Jeremiah Wright, has said that “God Bless America” should be replaced by “God damn America” — among many other wild and even obscene denunciations of American society, including blanket racist attacks on whites.” Obama never even attests to the fact that his political statements, the very foundation of his candidacy for president, contradict those of his closest friends. If he is going to subject himself to these comments, he had better not run his campaign off hypocritical statements.
In an article by TNR titled Standing by His Man, the Democrats try to find a valid reason for Obama standing beside someone who criticizes the vary nation he is supposedly fighting for. The article fails to mention the fact that Wright could care less for America, and Obama could care less for him caring less for America. Their response to such a statement is, “The power of the preacher is an unmeasured force in American life. Of course, now that it has become an issue