First and fore most I would like to say that I am not loyal to any political party. In past elections I have voted for the candidate who I felt could best run this country whether it be a Republican, Democrat, or any other party. This election in my opinion is very tainted for many reasons. The first being that President elect Obama received votes strictly due to race. Every news station I watched during election coverage claimed there were record numbers of voters this year. Why do you think that is? Are we as a nation going to ignore the fact that more African Americans voted for the simple fact of having a black president? This to me is not history in the making, it’s a shame. It’s a shame that a president of our country has only two years of U.S Senate experience. Obama has another eight years in the Illinois Senate, far less than his counter part John McCain. I spoke with a young voter who stated she did not think a person needed experience to run this country. She was also an individual out of work, not because of our economy, but because she is too lazy to look for a job. These are the type of people who voted for Obama. Since the election I have spoken with several other Obama supporters, and there has been a common theme. They are all without jobs, and come from middle class families, and from what I gathered they all felt as if America owes them something. They all spoke of how during tax time they would receive on average an extra one thousand dollars under Obama. People talk of how Republicans are only for the rich, yet it’s the middle class who seem to be the greedy ones. Instead of asking for handouts from the government, why are we not concerned with creating more jobs? Focus on the root of the problem, finding a short term solution such as a thousand dollar tax break isn’t the answer. How about placing a cap on how much profit an oil company can make based on the price of a barrel? Senator McCain has stressed this issue. He seems to understand that fuel runs our economy. Fuel costs affect every facet of society, from construction to your neighborhood deli. What’s President elect Obama’s plan for the fuel issue in this country? Essentially his plan is to lower the demand. Is that possible? I know that for many Americans including myself the public transportation in many cities just is not adequate enough to support his solution. Obama has admitted he has no plan to fix this problem. That alone is enough for him not to have received my vote. Senator McCain had proposed a “tax holiday” from Memorial day to Labor Day. This is not a long term fix, but it would sure help out many Americans during those three months. President elect Obama was against this idea, and in turn stated he had no plan at all. In my opinion at least McCain had an idea to help Americans out. Any idea is better than no idea at all. During an interview in January Obama stated he would like to bankrupt the coal industry. This to me is just ridiculous for a couple of reasons. The first one being that this would cause many Americans to loose their jobs creating an even higher unemployment rate. There are new technologies out there that help decrease the amount of green house gases getting into the atmosphere. Coal energy is also far less expensive to produce resulting in lower energy cost. Senator McCain was for the coal industry and willing to explore the technologies needed to make creating coal energy more environmental friendly. This is another reason why Obama did not receive my vote. Obama talks so much about change, however has no solution to either of these issues. What is really ironic about the coal issue is that a few of the states Obama won are states where the coal industry is a major contributor to there economy. States such as Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Ohio. Ignorance is bliss, I guess. I think many Americans voted believing Obama is going to wave a magic wand and fix the economy. This is a fantasy, Obama is not the first candidate to say America needs “change”. Senator McCain was unfairly put in the same “boat” as George W. Bush. There are good Republicans and not so good, and same for the Democrats. I think the country is so angry with Bush that it did not matter who the Republican candidate was, they were not going to win. A Democrat was going to be president, no matter if their candidate was black, white, blue, or green. On a side note i did not even read this i just copy pasta lol i just figured i should add this sentence near the end. let me know if it was worth reading lol. I do change my mind, this election did make history in my mind; it was the first time in my life I have truly been disappointed to be an American and am truly disgusted with our society.
