Election Post Week Two!

  No country is perfect. Even though the United States is appeared to be super awesome (which it is) we definitely have our fair share of issues that need work. The national issue that is most important to me is the economy.  There are millions of people without health insurance, something vital to humans this day and age. It scares me to see gas prices rising higher and higher as well as the price of food. And now we have this whole Wall Street problem and this isn't what America is about. Whenever I have learned about the Great Depression in school, I would always think to myself how I could have never lived through the hardship of those years as the people of that time did. So now, it scares me to think that today our economy is being  compared similarily with the economy of that time because it's so out of control.  My hope is that over the next 4-8 years of whoever is president, they help us slowly build back our economic stance so that way people won't have to worry everyday about the prices of gas or food. What fun is that?

One state issue that is important to me is abortion. I know that Virginia has the whole law about it's okay as long as you have your parents permission. Still, parents permission or not, murder is murder. There are no excuses anymore. A child is a life even he/she is not born. Even though the Supreme court said it's okay if it's in the first two trimesters, how does that make any difference about what's done?????? I would like to see someone take office in support of human life. Although, I do believe that if the baby is going to affect the mother's life, then absolutely, there should be an abortion, but just to do it because getting pregnant was an accident is not a justified reason. There needs to be stricter regulations regarding this issue.

Up until now there has only been one debate. I think that both candidates have performed very well up to this point by explaining, giving justified reasons, and making their views known. From watching the FOX news, those people seem to think that McCain "won" the first one, but I honestly, I couldn't declare a winner and because I think both candidates had their strong and weak spots. And of course FOX is going to say that because they are totally conservative. For the beginning of the debate, the candidates basically didn't talk to eachother but the the moderator, Jim Lehrer. Then they finally did and it was like whoa. Obama, to me, seemed pretty stiff for a while, making himself kind of look like an older man. They discussed all topics ranging from Iraq, to Russia, to the economy. McCain definitely proved his wide range of experience and Obama really set off his idea of helping people live their dreams. Because of the electronic media, more people get more politically involved. How could you not? I mean, election stuff is like, EVERYWHERE. But it's actually a really good thing. It's even got me more interested and I never use to like politics. Because of the electronic media, I actually have been watching the news on T.V. just because. I read the Washington Post in the morning and use to just skip to the Style section but now I find myself reading the front page stuff too because it's good information to know. The electron media does a great job playing up ads and speeches that I think it will greatly influence larger political participation and get people thinking. Not only can we find national election information on T.V and computers but also local/ state elections. The computer also plays a big role. People get really into politics on blogs (like us!) as well is it easy to access information on news websites such as CNN and C-SPAN. With the media playing such a huge role, I feel it will be difficult for anyone to say that they won't vote because they don't know what's going on. Elections must have been extremely different in the past. But for 2008, I believe the electronic media is really going to get people interested. Can't wait for the VPd debate! Thursday night at 9!