McCain Bio

John McCain, presidential candidate for the Republican Party, along with a long military backround, is also the only person in the current race who has been in this game before, he has the most experience of both of the competing parties. John McCain was born August 29, 1936, In the Panama Canal Zone. He has had two wives, Carol Shepp and Cindy Hensley, and seven children, one of which was adopted from Bangladesh at a year old. He is currently a U.S. senator from Arizona and has served in the armed forces for a time of his life. He went to U.S. Naval Academy and the National War College. He has been in a few near death situations in Vietnam. McCain was held prisoner by the North Vietnamese in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. In 2002 McCain was in the presidential race, but ironically he was on the democratic side working on relations and trade with Vietnam. He also Co-sponsored a financial bill in that same year. Two years later, McCain shut down John Kerry’s offer for Vice president in. In addition to a lot of his great leadership skills McCain also received as an award a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, a Legion of Merit, and a Purple Heart. All of his great achievements and leadership skills make a good combination of a great president.

Palin Bio

Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska since December 4, 2006, has recently been chosen for the role of Vice President for the Republican Party. Palin will be the first woman to have made it this far in the presidential race. She is married to Todd Palin, and five children. Palin has fought against the big oil companies in Alaska trying to get them to reform their system. She is working on energy development, education and workforce development, and public health and safety development. Palin has been working on a pipeline of natural gas. She has also used her veto pen to cut out about a half a billion dollars in wasteful spending, once becoming a member of office she eliminated herself on a lot of unnecessary things. She is working the efficient recovery of domestic oil and natural gas resources while protecting the health and safety of the environment. So in conclusion of all of her conservation, especially at a time like this, rumors of global warming, Palin would be a perfect candidate to influence America.

Obama Bio

Barrack Obama was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is married to Michelle Robinson, and has two children. He went to Columbia University and Harvard University. He has practiced civil rights and taught the constitutional law in the 1990’s. He has been a state senator for Illinois; he also ran for the U.S. House seat but did not receive it. In 2006 Obama won a Grammy Award for best spoken album for his reading of “Dreams from My Father.” He was not only the president of Harvard Law Review, but the first African American to become one. Obama loves helping out his country and fixing our problems, from Katrina, to the role of faith in politics, change is what he is all about.

Biden Bio

Joe Biden became a Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee in 1997, he was also a chairman of the committee, and a chairman of the Judiciary Committee for 16 years. Biden is one of the most influential people of the situations, terrorism, drugs, crime and the female opinion. But Biden speaks out on Bush’s way of handling the Iraq war. Biden has been involved in the help of other countries, but believes in the woman’s thought. He has passed the landmark Violence against Women Act, which is the strongest legislation to be known that put people on charge for domestically violating others. All in all Biden has good moral values and puts them to use instead of just speaking about it, he could make a lot of great changes in our world.

GLOBAL WARMING

To some people, global warming is a true and very real issue, to others it's just a hoax, to me i do agree that the world is getting warmer, slowly, but i also think that it is not our faults. The world may not be helping it and slowing it down, but even if we try to preserve our earth and natural resources, i fell as though that the earth is still going to get "warmer", and simply reset itself. There are no positives to this, but one of many negatives is that we might not get any more snow as the world gets warmer, and i love the snow. McCain and Obama are supposedly going to the "Global Warming" matter. Obama has said that he is going to cut greenhouse gas emissions in America by 80% by 2050 through a cap and trade program and is going to charge companies for all emission permits. McCain's stand point is just a tiny bit different. McCain is going to cut greenhouse emission in America by a least 60% by 2050 through a cap and trade program, like Obama. McCain is also going to charge companies for all emission permits. So the actions that McCain and Obama are going to take for global warming, they are very similar but still effective. Both presidential candidates are pushing pollution-cutting efforts like these, recognizing climate change as an issue is a big change from the past years. Both candidates say they'll join international climate change efforts that the Bush administration has ignored, and will press China and India to cut greenhouse gases. I think there ideas are good one, I would like to see their actions.

Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear weapons are very dangerous and can destroy allot of land, they have been used before, but i think that they should not be used at all until the very last second when worst comes to the very worst. The positive thing about nuclear weapons is that if we use them no country will think that we are weak, but a bad thing is that if we screw up with them we might end up with a big burden on our hands. John McCain agrees with them though, he strongly supports the missile defense. He feels as though that they are a good use of protection especially with North Korea and their capability to target America missiles from countries like Iran that threaten American forces and American allies. He also like that you can use the missiles out at sea with no worries of other attacks because of the distance. Obama believes that even in Iran it is unacceptable and that the making of nuclear weapons should be stopped immediately.

Offshore Drilling

Another issue on the mind of some Americans is offshore drilling. I personally don't know what I agree with, I think that it should be a last resort though. A positive could be that we could conserve other natural resources, and a negative is that if we don't conserve we might not have anything else to turn onto that could produce enough energy. McCain believes that we should be using alternative energy, and the exploitation of existing oil reserves, natural gas, and coal. Obama, however, is fine with offshore drilling as long as it is cheap and its energy uses go along way.