With a combination of the Clintons’ endorsement, and the 40,000 spectators, and the celebrity endorsements, Obama has managed edge up against McCain in the recent polls.
This clearly shows that the news about the Democratic convention has put Obama into the spotlight. Into the good light. The Clintons had officially endorse him and every now and then they show snapshots of celebrities who are in the convention. Not to mention his family made an appearance, nothing could attract good publicity but a grinning and happy family on stage. The GOP better havean extravagant plan for their own convention. Will have to see if the same effect will happen after the GOP convention.
Yes, in some sense, McCain has a point to say that Obama is somewhat a big shot and as popular as Hollywood celebrities ( but not the same as Paris Hilton or Britney Spears). His charisma is undeniable and he doesn’t bring disgust. And this is also the sentiment of the old-word voters, that you cannot help but to love Obama, but his experience is still in limbo. He is completely new to the Americans’ perception of a president.
But now, in an unprecedented move, his wife, Michelle is closing the gap by making that emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention. She relayed her humble beginnings and her struggles with a father with a MS (Multiple Sclerosis). She proved that she is just like any of us. She just disproved those who questioned her loyalty to the country.
With this speech, she closed the gap that separated their family from the average. Her understated elegance was surely a sign that she is the classis wife who’ll stood by her husband but will not be taken down by criticisms.
With the elections just two months away, the issue has shifted on who will be Obama and McCain’s veep and the most fundamental issues are now being set aside. As a concerned voter, (yes, I will vote on November) I am most yearning to hear their more specific and concrete health care plans. My basic question is that if the would-be president would let his government handle the health insurance department or will still let private entities to handle this.
If the government will shoulder this nation’s health care, they will spend approximately 4.4-6.7 trillion dollars every 4 years. Experts say that this is more than what we spend in Iraq for a year. WEll, if this is the case, I would choose this as the money will be spent to save lives not kill them.
In other countries where the health care is totally funded by the government, they claim that it takes weeks to actually be seen by a doctor and be given medication or be exposed to medical tests. I daresay it all depends on the management. If there will be more healthworkers and hospitals available, then there should be no reason why a mere appointment would take 7 days to be made.
Universal health care works very well in most of the developed western world. Your claims about the deficiencies of these systems are unsubstantiated, and not borne out by my own experience of universal health care in both the UK and Australia.
Universal health care does not mean a system controlled by the government, it means a system financed by taxation and universally available. So, these are my reasons why health care for ALL citizens should be funded by the government.
I hope to hear this from Obama and McCain instead of seeing them trying to play a hide-and-seek game on who their VPs will be.
As I have featured McCain’s celeb ad that was questioning Obama’s ability to lead, I know someday someone rather than Obama (for a change) will fight back. And not, I am not surprised that Paris has responded. Frankly, I was a bit amazed at how articulate she appeared. But then again, she memorized a script. Now, I am saying kudos to the writer of her monologue. Did such a good job.
Paris does have the guts to do this, I bet that if it was another celebrity, they would just issue a statement. But she agreed to actually make a video herself (not that she hasn’t appeared in a video before). And come to think of it, her energy plan does make sense versus the Obama’s and McCain’s. Again, hats off to the writer. And it’s nice to see that she has the usual body flaws like her flabby arms and legs, she seemed proud to flaunt those. So, without further ado, here’s her video.
As I view the world, there are two things that gain our attention, the elections and the gas prices. And their common denominator? Barack Obama and John McCain.
They just throw criticisms towards each other like they’re playing baseball on time pressure. Come to think of it, this is just but unfortunately normal, but I had a laugh and then got annoyed when I saw this ad by McCain against Obama:
Come on, he is just obviously jealous of the popularity Obama is gaining, especially with this ties with the celebrities, especially with Lady O. It is just so childish and nature. What makes this more annoyingly funny is that he compared Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears? What the heck? Those two are blondes shouldn’t be your role models for a celebrity. But then again, maybe that’s the way he wants Obama to be portrayed, a mindless celebrity.
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