OBAMA!

I get a lot of confused messages these days because I have decided to vote for Obama. "But your facebook says you're conservative!" reads a typical one. Yes, I am socially conservative. I try not to swear in front of kids, I don't believe in abortion as a cheap fix and I sure as hell don't think same sex couples should get married.
But social demeanor is only a speck of dust in the quagmire of todays politics. As America we are in a lot more trouble than one might think. We are in the same position as the British were in at the start if 1946. World opinion is against us, our military is stretched to the breaking point, our economy is a joke and we're about to get kicked out of a lot of places.
There needs to be a drastic change in American foreign policy or else Russia and China are going to knock us off of the world pedestal. Can't forget about Pakistan, who ousted the pro American Musharraf. And the Paki's have nuclear weapons.
This is why Obama would be a better president. McCain only studied at military schools, and has that hell-bent-for-leather offensive attitude that would absolutely destroy our military superiority. If unorganized and untrained militias in Iraq can hold us up with improvised bombs and sniper fire, Iran's standing army is going to give us a little more trouble.
Mccain, in the first debate, used excessively flowery language trying to play off of our patriotism. Obama used down to earth language in outlining our problems. So we have one candidate who recognizes the problem and is willing to fix and another candidate who refuses to admit we have a problem. Like a drug addict, you have to beat the denial stage in order to get better.
We need to stop worrying about world issues and focus on home. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Bridges are collapsing. Banks are going under. There is an Aids epidemic. And we have a bunch of god damned divisions over in Iraq and Afghanistan costing us millions of dollars a day. There are people there who shoot at us. I think that means we don't need to be there. America's sovereignty isn't at stake. It will be, however, when China's military finds a way around our technology like they did when they surfaced a submarine in an aircraft carrier task force.
All parties involved have been taking cheap shots at Obama. They called him out for wearing a Muslim tribal dress. That was an egregious resurrection of McCarthy-style panic-mongering. I think it's great he learned about his heritage. All the political analysts held their breath when McCain referred to Obama as 'you guys'. Michelle Obama later told Larry King they were not offended in any way. That goes to show the maturity of Obama in recognizing that leadership rises above the trivial and ambiguous mudslinging comments. If he wanted to, he could have thrown the race card out there. But he isn't desperate like McCain, in face he's very confident and laid back. And that is why he's going to make a great president.