
Personally I don't think that who the President is really matters. I pretty much think it's the guys behind them that are making all their decisions and they are just the face of those

My opinion on Barack Obama:

It seems like to me that Obama campaign slogan should be: "Hey if you hated how our government has done things for the past 8 years vote for me" Wasn't that basically John Kerry's political stance? "Hey if you hate George Bush vote for me." "Change we can believe in" seems to be his preferred slogan but I really wonder what changes he is actually going to make. He talks about free health care and it seems like a good idea I certainly can't afford health care so"Yay for Free Healthcare" but I don't think that if he wins the Presidential Election he will even be able to change that anyways and I am not entirely convinced that it would be a good idea if he did. He also mentioned pulling the troops out of the Middle East in what 18 months but then didn't he go to the Middle East and realized that probably wouldn't be the best idea?
This whole idea of Barack Obama being too green to be a good President is a bunch of crap studies have shown that when a President has been involved in politics too long they are actually crappy politicians i.e George Bush, Richard Nixon and the ones with less experience i.e John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter all proved to be great Presidents so this whole Barack Obama being too green doesnt make much sense. Although I am glad that the media is taking the high road and they are saying that he shouldn't be President because he is 'green' instead of saying that he shouldn't be President because he is black.

Also whats the media accusing him of being an Elitist. Shouldn't our President be an elitist? I am going to rip off some of John Stewart's material here but people do realize that if Barack Obama does a good job then they put his face on A MOUNTAIN! I want my president to be an Elitist I want him to be embarrassingly better than everybody else. I don't want a President that thinks he could be a good President in a weird sort of way if everything works out. That's stupid.
There just seems to be too many questions and concerns I have about the changes that Obama would be making and I really doubt that even if he is president that he will even

My Opinion on John Mccain:


I guess my biggest pet peeve about John Mccain is that he isn't funny and not fun to make fun of. In all honesty what really matters to me is what President can the talk show hosts make fun of the most. Clinton gave us great material because of "blowgate" and George W. Bush jokes were classic and he provided more material for the late night television that any other President ever has and ever will. But the only thing we can make fun of Mccain about is his age. That's lame. Come on Johnny ya gotta give us something. Your killing me.
I guess the reason that I am going to end up voting for John Mccain is that I don't know have any problems with him I really can't think of anything that really bugs me about him and as I mention there are just things that bug me about Obama. I think at the end of the day that I am going to vote for John Mccain but I think Obama is going to win this election and I think that I will be "ok" with that.
Ok and now on to the big issue: The War

I will get to my opinion on the whole War in Iraq in a minute We are going to compare this to sports. Trust me it will make sense eventually. If you wanted to know about how the Lakers game went down there are several ways you could go about this. You can get it from several different viewpoints and depending on which viewpoint you had would determine your opinion of the game.
VIEWPOINT ONE: THE MEDIA

The Lakers played last night and it wasn't on TV so all I could do was watch the highlights of the game on Sportscenter and look at the boxscore. I got a very small idea of how they did. I know they lost and that Vladimir Radmonovic was the leading scorer and Al Thornton played very well. I know because Sportscenter told me. I only saw the highlights that they decided to show me and I know very little about the game. So I got my information from the media and I only know what they decided to tell me and I only saw about 45 seconds of the game. So I have very little knowledge of what happened in the game.
VIEWPOINT 2: WATCHED THE GAME LIVE ON TELEVISION

This way I am going to get to watch the whole game live on television and I will have a better understanding of the game since I know what happened from tip-off to the final buzzer. But still I only get to see what that particular television station decided to show me. I am missing out on some very fundamental aspects of the game that can't accurately be portrayed by sitting on my couch watching the game.
VIEWPOINT 3: WATCHED THE GAME IN PERSON

This is probably the best way for me to get the most information. I am at the game. I can see everything. I can form my own opinions that are not going to be swayed by the media. I can see the emotions on the players faces. I can see what the camera isn't showing the people sitting at home watching on television. Unfortunately very few people have this option of getting this close to the game we can't all afford courtside seats to the Lakers game. If I was not able to attend the game I know that I would get a much better recap and understanding of the game from Jack than I would from whatever anchor is on ESPn but yet even then it would be purely based on what Jack Nicholson thought about the game and my opinion would be based on what Jack told me.
VIEWPOINT 4: PLAYED IN THE GAME

Ok I don't play for the Los Angeles Lakers and very few people play in the NBA at all so this viewpoint is very rare but it is the best viewpoint. Kobe knows exactly why they lost last night to the Clippers. He knows everything about the game. The 24 players who suited up and maybe the coaches know more about the game than any one else in the arena and obviously anybody watching the game or highlights. They experienced it first hand and if I wanted to know about the game I cannot think of a better person to ask than Kobe or any of the other players in the game. I do realize that Kobe would never admit that they lost because he had a bad game or he shot the ball too many times, but if he was completely honest about the game no body can dispute that he would be the man to go to if you wanted the truth about the game went down.

Why do you think Obama got so much flack from John Mccain for declaring his stance on the war before he even went to Iraq? He was probably getting his information from the Jack Nicholson of the War in the middle east and when he went there and experienced it for himself his opinion changed. I am not enlisted in the military and I have never been to Iraq so I feel that I really

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