War of Today?!

In Micheal Weikman's Commentary on Keep the Peace I agree that it will be tough to lothe the presence of the U.S Soldiers from the eye of the Iraqi citizens for the next three years because as mention from one of the debates from Obama as I can remember. Obama did state the fact that, we were suppose to head into Afganistan not Iraq. And what did George W Bush do? He put his nose into other countries business, but then again Iraq did have a dictator (Sadam) who was terrorizing most of the abiding citizens. So therefore it was wrong of Bush to go to Iraq. However, Bush did one thing right and its that he expressed our country's willingness to help other countries when in need. Moreover, I do believe that it would take a while to pull the troops because as Micheal emphasized earlier "America just began an agreement of security pact with Iraq" meaning that the process has just begun and may take awhile. Furthermore, in my opinion I believe that troops won't be pulled out for a while because I heard that it would take a long time for the Americans to help restablish the government which is full of coruption going on.

Honorable men!!

Well as of now, our next new president is declared to be Senator Barack Obama, with McCain putting up a good fight against Obama through a great deal of campaigning for the presidential position. I personally thought this was good race between the two because in the end both are fighting for what they believe is best for our country. One good thing about our candidates who ran, is that their speeches were honorable when the race was finished. For one I thought McCain did a gracious job delivering his and congratulating Obama as opposed to his fans who were booing Obama. I really thought most people for McCain would accept Obama as their new commander and chief, but as I watched it appeared to me that some of them were sort of losers and immature. I mean sure some people believe that he doesn't have the experience to lead our country, but they are forgetting one thing and that is that our country is a land of opportunity. Not only do we have opportunities, we also have the freedom to express of what we the think about our country. Besides the speech given by McCain, Obama also gave one which was expressed in a eloquent way by expressing his speech humbly saying he is not that much better, but also in the in same boat as McCain when it came to our country. Furthermore, he expresses change by saying we the people will change the world together with generations becoming more advance little by little. After watching them talk, I realized that they are not that all different, but similar when it came to our country.

Why so immature?

Chad's commentary on "Obama's Got a Big Butt" is straight dead on for the negative ads that the presidential candidates sling against each other. Furthermore, he emphasizes that the negative ads have their benefits, but to a certain extent where he states that "Stepping on someone else to elevate yourself does not show respectability or responsibility." In my opinion I also agree to what Chad says about the ads because haven't we been taught throughout our whole life on how we should never hurt someone through negativity as low as a second grade level, but as adults in a honorable way. Anyways I also like the fact that Mr. Chad stated that there are other ways of dealing with the issue when it comes to the candidates. He points this out by expressing that there other ways of dealing with your opponent such as debates, speeches, interviews, other than the negativity which is a mentally of a children having it their way. In addition to that, I think his point is that our candidates can sometimes be childish and need to stop with the name calling in the ads, it is immature and vague.

A need for change now!!

The US government will be changing over the coming years. With the election coming up we can see how the government is going to change. Though it is down to most people's opinion, I do happen to believe that George Bush has done nothing good for this country and that we are in need of a better president in order to lead us forward. So the question is what changes does our country need if we have a new president? Well, there are many policies which we are keeping our hopes high for. An incredibly good change would be to mention national health care, this would be an incredibly valuable and useful for people who can't afford much. With the introduction to a health care system we could see so many lives saved as a result, many people nowadays die all because they cannot afford to pay for either surgery or treatment to an illness they have. And what is worse is that some of these illnesses are easily curable, but it is the simply funding which people lack, with a health care plan it would be much easier to be treated. Another policy which many people want to see is more troops pulled out of. Many people would agree that the war on was a pointless act, there has been much argument on to why George Bush started the war. I think that pulling our troops out of Iraq would be a great improvement since there are so many troops who are being killed for no reason out in Iraq, it is important that the next US President pulls out the troops and sorts out this ridiculous mess that George Bush has created.

What do people think!?

According to Tom Bevan's blog from Bloomberg/LA times he showed in detail that Obama is leading John McCain by nine points among likely voters. The result had shown that Obama is leading by fifty and John McCain behind by forty one whereas the seven remaining were undecided. In addition to that, Bevan also included the RCP national average showing the Obama leads McCain by 7.3%. Not only has he given information about our two candidates, but also Bevan has included the favorable statistic results of each of the other candidates who are running for vice president. For Joe Biden it was of a +22 gap between (49/27) and for Obama it was +19 (53/34) and as for their opponents McCain and Palin the numbers tell a lot that not many are very favorable of the two. McCain's is of a +8 gap (47/39) and for Palin only a +1(43/42). Tom Bevan also emphasized in his blog that the Democrats hold a six point advantage when it came to congressional vote among registered voters, it was of a 45-39 range. Other than that, Bevan provided valid evidence what other people thought of some of the other candidates if they were chosen in their position. One example this is when he shows to the readers that "43% say Sarah Palin is qualified to be VP, 49% say she is not". Another example he included was that if Obama had the right experience of leading our country and the result he had shown was that" 49% say Obama has the "right experience" to be President whereas 80% percent say that John McCain presents more experience when becoming a leader. Moreover, from a view point it is shown that not many people are happy with the direction our country is heading into.
From what I see everyday on the news I agree with the information Bevan has revealed because I always happen to hear it not only on TV the news, but from other people as I go from place to place whether it is class or maybe from church it so happens to be an issue what others around me think about either of the candidates running.

Lender industries

In the article "Show us the Hope" Clark Hoyt a former Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and editor who oversaw the Knight Ridder newspaper chain’s coverage, discusses how neither Congress and the Bush administration have never shown any sense of helping the homeowners, but show some sense when it comes to helping the financiers to the top. He points out one example which I thought was a pretty good idea, of a government program with the purpose to help $400,000 struggling homeowners keep their home. Furthermore, he said that this plan would help ensure $ 300 billions of troubled borrowers. However, there was a problem which he pointed out, it was that many lenders were cautious about participating in this program because of losses going on with reduced loan Balances. He explains that it is kind of helpful that lenders are taking the step to help the trouble borrowers, but he said they are not doing enough to help out as quoted "defaults and foreclosures continue to outstrip efforts to rework bad loans." In addition to that, he also puts good emphasis on how the home prices have fallen and how big of burden it would be with unemployment on the way. His point on arguing about this was that he believed congress should amend the bankruptcy code so that the court would be able to change troubled mortgages. Another reason why he discusses this is because many borrowers as mentioned were foolish enough to take on these loans and in return many of the industries end up being the victim of the borrowers as said.
I actually agree with the argument he made about the lenders helping, but not enough help is given when it came to the troubled borrowers. The reason why I agree with this is because he had provided pretty good valid concepts on home prices falling and unemployment, which has me thinking how the lender industries would be able to manage.

Democratic & Republican answers to science policies

Ever since Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain were given questions about science policy, people wonder what Obama's and McCain's answer would be? Well, now they have answers with McCain finally giving his this Monday after a long wait. For innovation Obama stated that he would double federal budgets for basic research and support the broadband internet connections whereas McCain would stress out the policies to help provide low taxes and incentives for research. Furthermore, Obama suggested he would increase federal investment in clean energy by $150 billion over a decade and for McCain he said he would build 45 new reactors to help with alternative energy sources. This was just the beginning for their answers. Whats more is that they had answers for the climate change, genetics research, stem cells, and space which they were going into deep detail on what they had thought about it. They agreed on some of the answers implemented, but had different responses for some.
What was interesting about this story when I read this article was that both senators had good answers for each science policy which will affect peoples lives in the future. New York Times