Obama and experience

Whenever people say, "But what about Palin? She has no experience." Generally the response from a Palin supporter is: "And Obama? What about him?"

Well, what about him? There is a difference between the two of them that is never brought up-and that is education. Palin graduated after hopping around 5 colleges. Eventually she graduated in 1987 at the University of Idaho. Obama, graduated at Columbia college, and then later Harvard where he served as the president of the Harvard Review. In terms of education, I hear that Ivy league schools are hard to get into, and becoming the president of the Harvard review is even harder.

Just the other day somebody said, "So what about education? George Washington was the president and he didn't graduate high school." Me being the sort of person who needs to digest problems and let them sit for a while was rather baffled and didn't comment on that, but now I do have a response.
1. Do you think George Washington could handle an economy where we're 10 trillion in debt? He lived in an age where people were still traveling my horse and used slaves. Sure he was a good president then, but the requirements for being a president were a lot different then they are now.
2. The idea that education is irrelevant is asinine. Education is the base of plenty intelligence that is required to be a president, and the better education the better the president is likely to be.

John McCain's choice

Though the vice president usually isn't of much service to the president, McCain should have put more thought into his v.p. choice. Though Sarah Palin has some positive features, she is much younger than him and is rather inexperienced(the same case goes for Barack), and let's be honest, McCain would be more likely to die on the job than many of the other presidents, so you really have to ask, would Sarah Palin, a governor from Alaska with two years of experience, be ready to lead? I don't think so.

Vote.

I don't understand why many teens who are able to vote, elect not to vote. In fact one of my cousins says they aren't planning on voting(not if I can help it though). Many say it doesn't affect them, and here's my response: Are you going to college? Well right there college tuition may increase or decrease at the will of the president. Plus there's the status of the environment and the price of healthcare. Not to mention the perception of our country internationally. It is not stretching to say that our country is not very popular throughout the world. The next president is responsible for changing that. So for everyone who doesn't plan on voting, because they don't think it will affect them, then don't vote for yourself, vote for your country.

To register to vote online here's the link: http://www.rockthevote.com/rtv_register.html?ms=rtv.com-homebutton

What's wrong with Barack Obama's campaign

Though Barack Obama's campaign is going relatively well I still believe that he's approaching some of it the wrong way. What I am primarily talking about is the nature of the commercials Barack's team has been releasing. I was hoping that Barack would be able to step away from the mudslinging and take it in a more positive direction, but it seems that Barack is swinging back with the best of them. Though, yes you do need to respond to some of the insults put in with commercials, you don't need to take it to the next step and throw it right back in your opponent's face. In fact, I was hoping that perhaps Barack and his team would rise above all the mudslinging, but that is obviously not the case.