mmarsh
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Actually he was captured in North Vietnam.
Regardless of this or that I think this man is more qualified than the other two candidates currently.
This is why I think so.
Right now, the country is at a time of war. There is a need for a President who understands what war is. He's fought in one and he's been against war or deployment many times in his career. He's no chickenhawk. He's going to do what's necessary without haphazardly pulling out of Iraq or Afghanistan that will probably lead to more larger problems in the near future as well as the distant future.
It also seems like he's a very internationally minded person and I think there really needs to be more of this. The other two candidates may be about the same in this arena, though I'm not so sure about Hillary Clinton.
He's experienced and he's not afraid to go against fellow party members or his own party if he believes they're not doing the right thing. So he's got guts and the skill to survive in politics even when he stands more or less alone against his own party. Many politicians have stood against their own party and ended up in lame duck alley ahead of schedule (read: Noh Moo-hyeon). Obama doesn't have the experience to show us that he can pull off the same thing and Hillary... her rise was mainly by riding along side her husband. The majority of leaders who rose this way ended up being rather ineffective leaders (Benezir Bhutto, a stack load of Filipina Presidents and South Korean presidential candidate Park Gun-hye). They showed a lot of promise but when they took their seat, their weaknesses showed in flying colors.
Also, because the current President has been pretty darn conservative, I think the solution will be to elect a centrist, NOT a leftist President. McCain is about as centrist as you can get along with Joe Liberman.
He's not perfect but out of the candidates we got, I think he's the most fit to lead.
And I agree with the UHC thing being way better.
Basically from what I've seen the only countries that have worse healthcare than the US are 3rd world countries that don't even have enough money to properly pave their roads.
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I disagree somewhat.
Hillary keeps saying she has more experiance than Obama, but I am not so sure thats actually true. She was the First Lady, the First Lady is not an elected official position. She wasn't involved in the decision making, her HUSBAND was. Samething when Clinton was Governor of Arkansas, HE was the one in office not her, she was always riding on his coatails. And thats fine, lots of First Ladies have done the same, although Hillary is the first to attempt to claim her Husbands achievements as her own.
The only experiance she has to claim is as New York Senator, a job she had held only 2 years more than Obama. Obama on the other hand spent 10 years as a Illinois state senator. So overall I'd say HE has the most experiance. Hillary on has 2 years more than Obama as a US Senator.
Secondly I agree with what you said about needing a Centrist, but the problem is McCain isn't one, he is now the MOST conservative senator in Congress. He has been Conservative on all most every issue except immigration. The reason people call him liberal-moderate is because he follows his own convictions rather than that of the GOP herd. And I respect that, the last thing we need is another Bush whose is programmed by his puppet masters.
My problem with McCain is not that he is a bad, stupid, or dishonest person but that he is wrong. Hillary called his Economic policies that of "Herbert Hoover", she is right. McCain Favors the same hands-off approach to our current economic crisis that Hoover did -which of course led to the Great Depression.
His policies on the Economy, the War, and Foreign Policy are exactly identical to the current disastrous administration. I am sure he'd be better than Bush, but 'better' isn't what we need. We need a SLAM THE BREAKS-FULL REVERSE change of direction, not the minor course correction he proposes.
Hillary is far more to the center than McCain is, although I am voting for Obama because like many Democrats -I don't the Clinton on a personal level.
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