As a moderate conservative, I started looking at this race in the beginning with the mindset that former mayor Rudy Guiliani would be hands-down winning the election. I never gave much thought to Barack Obama's campaign, seeing as how he wasn't being given much credit as a worthy opponent to Billary. After seeing Rudy's campaign management going sour, however, I started looking at other candidates.
My theme this election has been "anyone but Billary." She's just too abrasive and polarized, loses her temper too fast, and I've noticed now that she consistently looks down during debates when she's talking; hardly ever does she make eye contact with the moderators or the audience, rather she looks at the table in front of her. This shows tremendous weakness of character, in my opinion.
I've seen the same two families controlling the white house for the last twenty years now: the Bushes and Clinton. It's clear that we cannot entrust the fate of our nation to "more of the same," to quote Clinton herself. What I see when I look at HRC is a woman who stayed with her two-timing, no-good lying husband only to advance her political career. Without him, she'd have had no chance in the New York Senate race, or furthermore in the Presidential race. Here's a woman who's devisive, polarized, mean, and a fence-hopper. Please..."I voted for it, but I was hoping it wouldn't pass"...? I loved last night's debate; Obama did such a great job dismissing the turban picture but at the same time we could all see that Billary was outright lying about her knowledge of it. It's just more of the same Washington B.S. politics and we all saw her lie like a rug in front of a nation just to save face. We've seen this movie before...we know how it ends.
I saw on the news a few weeks ago a woman who said "I'm voting for HRC because we don't need to vote a rockstar into office, we need to vote a president into office." I disagree on a fundamental level with that statement. I believe a rockstar is EXACTLY what we need! As Barack pointed out last night in the debate, what's most important is getting the American public involved in politics again. If we are to be a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people, the people must have an incentive and a drive to be involved in the decisions that their leaders make.
Another point before I close: For the last few decades now, one political phrase has echoed through the nation: "peace in the Middle East". Now, very simply, ask yourself can a female president of the United States accomplish meaningful progress with nations whose social climate dictates that women don't deserve respect? Shant this just push us into further tough relations with the nations we are trying to get to the table? Oh, silly me, I forgot...Barack is the only one who's campaigning that he would sit at the table with these nations without pre-conditions. And with Billary's emotional abrasiveness, and the fact that so many Americans see her with an unfavorable attitude, how can we expect or hope for nations who already disrespect women to like her?
I'm voting for Barack because I believe that many of the nations woes will fix themselves if we have confidence in the person we're voting into office. It's clear that he's not one of the same Washinton politicals that we've seen time and time again. His campaign, his promises, his attitude - everything about Barack Obama is the embodiment of change. God bless Obama, and God bless America!
