Why I Voted for Obama part II

Jobs

We have lost 760,000 jobs in this country this year. In Gary Indiana finding a job is next to impossible. People are losing their jobs. I know a few people have recently lost their jobs, because businesses John McCain has present really nothing different than the current administration as to creating new jobs. He simply thinks that if they continue to cut taxes on wealthy Americans, they will start new businesses and create jobs. The problem is that it hasn't worked for eight years. Why would it work now?

Obama, on the other hand, has some real ideas about creating jobs. The first is creating a multitude of jobs to increase and fix our infrastructure. If this sounds familiar, it should. FDR did the same thing to create jobs. I personally love this idea, since I live in a city with high unemployment and crumbling infrastructure. Maybe some of that money could go towards fixing the Gary sewers. That are about 80% clogged and also corroding. There was a collapse in the line behind my house, and now there is a sink hole. Thus I have to by bottled water.

The second part is to create jobs through basic job programs. The third part is to create jobs in an attempt to be more energy independent. This is another brilliant plan that takes care of two bird with one stone, joblessness and energy/environmental concerns. If we can make wind energy viable, then those gigantic windmills will have to be constructed. They are made out of steel, and in a steel town that looks pretty good. Also creating jobs in maintaining energy guarantees that they can't be outsourced.


War

A high ranking Al Qaeda member said that we they couldn't beat the United States in a head to head war. What they could do is drag the US into a war that put such an economic strain on our country that it could bring us down. That is exactly what the Iraq war was. The Iraq war is simple. It was about bad intel and oil. Many of the high ranking people in the Bush administration have come out and said that there was an effort to draw an line between Bin Ladin and Iraq. There of course was no connection. There was some intel that said that Iraq had WMDs. However there was little intel, because we don't have a large number of operatives working in the Middle East. Most of our CIA and NSA are still trained and acting as if Russia is our biggest threat. The oil connection is obvious. Bush has said that we brought freedom to a nation that had an evil dictator. Somewhat true, however there are multiple African nations that we don't step into. We have done nothing in Burma. China has terrible human rights violations. Why didn't we go there?

Now what about McCain's claim that we want to bring our troops home in victory. The problem is that we are not fighting an army. Think we are? What does an Iraqi uniform look like? We are fighting insurgences. They are never going to give up. So it is time to let Iraqis protect their own country from itself. We need to focus on Afghanistan. We need to find the Al qaeada leadership, who are planning to attack us. That is a war we can win. As someone who has a friend who reports to the Marines in December, I want to see a time where there is peace, and our fighting men and women can come home.



Unifying the country

I went to an Obama rally here in Gary during the primaries. There were some whites there, but the crowd was predominantly black. Tonight I went to another rally. There were whites, blacks, latinos, indians, arabs, and people of every race and hue were there. Obama has successfully brought people from every race, gender, sexual orientation, economic status, and religion together. John McCain has done his best to divide us as a nation. Trying to associate him with Arabs, like being an Arab is inherently evil. His campagin that there is a "real America" and I guess a fake America. That somehow democrats don't love this country and can't be pro-America. Maybe Senator McCain should note that the majority of the men and women who sign up for the United States military are from urban areas. Senator Obama is bringing us together more than any politician I have ever seen.

He reminds many of us of Dr. King. He is the realization of Dr. Kings dream, not because he is black. It is because he is the best person for the presidency. We judge him not on the color of his skin, but on the content of his character. Hopefully on November 4, we will truly be able to say, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."