Election Post Week 1

For this blog post I need to discuss my ideology/political party preference and tell which of the presidential candidates I am supporting.

Well, this election, I believe that neither of the candidates is "good enough" for the job. But, that does not mean I do not have a preference. This election I am in support for Barak Obama. For many reason but mainly because he wants to create new jobs and lower taxes for the working class. He is also a great speech giver and does not make our country look like idiots like the leaders of today.

I would have to say though that my thoughts behind politics are very socially liberal but economically conservative. I am against guns and I think that gays have the right to be married but I do not think that it is the governments job to take money from the wealthy and just give it to people who need it because they're too lazy to work.

Obama has changed his view on Iraq during his campaign. AT first he was saying that he was going to pull out of Iraq as soon as he gets in office. But now he is saying that he would like to "end the war responsibly," which is also a way of saying; I was only half lying before because I still want to pull out. This upsets me in a way because one of the reasons that I was supporting Obama was the fact that he was going to pull out of Iraq. But hey, that’s politics,

Another issue that is very important to me is the issue of energy. Obama said that he was going to put "150 billion dollars in renewable energy" My first reaction to this was OH MY GOD but again if that kind of money is needed to make our country independent from other people to give us energy then I fully agree with it. Obama wants to create thousands of new jobs for people in the renewable energy plants that will be open. This really affects me for the future because I want to be an engineer and I may even be working on alternative energy sources so with this renewable energy I have no reason to worry that I will not have a job in the future.