Pax Barackana

The election is over. This has been the most comprehensive win for a United States presidential candidate in recent history. Barack Obama has won the presidential election, and we can hope that he is able to bring this divisive country together. I hope he is able to demonstrate to the rest of the world that the America whose ideals were established by the Founding Fathers three hundred years ago, is alive and well.

Obama’s parental heritage and experiences as a kid growing up in other parts of the world allows him to think of the world and America’s place in it along the lines in which no previous president has ever been able to do.  A new presidency will hopefully begin in America in January, one in which its leaders, believe that harmony can only be achieved through consensus and compromise.

With Omaba’s presidency, I hope to see corrected the suffering that innocent across the world that have endured, the dismissal and mistreatment of the nations across the world just because they have a different opinion and the neglect of America and the UN’s commitment to human rights across the world. The global economy is in shambles, Iraq and Afghanistan are discombobulating, and the world is running out of non-renewable sources of energy. America has long claimed that it is the world’s singular superpower. Now is the time to step up and show true leadership.

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Yes we can

Obama vs. McCain

What will it take for people to see the light? Bill Clinton left office with about a $130 billion in surplus, and an unemployment rate of 4% — a 40 year low. Within the past eight years, the United States has embroiled itself in two unwinnable wars, and a $10 trillion national deficit, which has resulted in a record unemployment rate of 6.1%. Nothing that the Republicans have said over the course of the last eight years has been accurate — not the nukes in Sadaam’s backyard, nor the liberator cheerleading squad that was supposed to greet US troops in Iraq. And yet John McCain, representing the political party in power, is only down by eight points to Barack Obama. How do you help a victim that doesn’t want to be helped? The Republicans’ laissez-faire approach got the US into this bloody mess in the first place, and now John McCain wants to give more tax breaks — to the so-called “small businesses” — in the hopes that they will be able to employ more Americans and pass on the savings to their employees.

Wake up and smell the coffee. The most that’s going to happen with this hackneyed scheme is that small business owners, even imaginary ones like Joe the Plumber, would end up passing on savings to illegal aliens because of the simple fact that small businesses can’t afford to employ Americans. A Senator from Arizona should know better.

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