Indecisioon '08
Indecision 08
Left Wing.
Barack Obama, once referred to by George W. Bush as "the pope," is the candidate of the working class. He has projected an interesting dichotomy between a liberal platform and moderate rhetoric since his election into the United States Senate in 2004. His senatorial debut featured a keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and has since diligently endeavored to steer the nation out of the "long political darkness" of Bush War II. His existing exit strategy, dubbed the "Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007," calls to begin troop withdrawals on May 1 of this year or sooner. His goal of complete removal of all combat brigades no later than March 31, 2007, therefore, is proposed to be achieved gradually as the Iraqis succeed in reducing sectarian violence, government reforms, infrastructure development, fair and distribution of oil revenue.
Other key issues of Obama's blue-collar campaign is that of the need for universal health care, gay rights, and for a socio-economic alliance to be formed in the name of the gravely eminent environmental peril facing future generations. Obama represents the "Audacity of Hope" upon which the rapidly disappearing middle class is barely surviving.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, having represented New York in the United States Senate since her win in 2000, is the first woman to ever be nominated by a major political party. Soon after the announcement of her presidential bid, Clinton has expressed her urgency in swiftly ending the Iraqi War, as well as griping about median wage stagnation, lack of universal health care, and the ever-climbing price tag of higher education. Similar to Obama, Clinton has outlined a plan in the purpose of stabilizing the economy of the middle class. Despite her 2002 vote authorizing Bush's Iraqi invasion, Clinton recently proposed to the senate a resolution involving the freezing of US troops at the numbers they had...
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