Being 4 days away from the 2008 U.S. Elections, I thought it would be good to share with you my thoughts about it.
I’ve been following very closely the news, polls and some of the speeches of Barak Obama and John McCain. From my perspective, I think that there is no doubt that Senator McCain has far more experience than Senator Obama, and is better prepared to rule the destiny of the United States. Usually, when normal people like us apply for a job, usually experience is the factor that weights the most, so if being President of the United States was a job like any other out there, I’m pretty sure that John McCain would have won this race without a problem.
But as you probably have seen in the recent polls, Obama has kept a constant and clear advantage over his opponent . Why is that? This lead me to think that the job of President of the most powerful country on earth is a job of leadership, and as such, his job is to inspire his constituents to bring the best of them. Sometimes we think of a president as the guy that can fix all of our problems, and that from that position, all they need to do is push some buttons and start giving out orders to make things happen. But nothing could be far from the truth. It’s almost impossible that there is a man on earth that can dominate the endless amount of topics that affect a nation.
But there is one thing that a president can do, and that is inspire his people, so they can do their best. A president can certainly spark the change of attitude in people’s minds. In reality, it’s the people and not the government that makes a nation big, but the people need a leader that inspire change on them.
So, from my personal point of view, Senator Obama represents and inspires change in a lot of different ways. He might not be the best to the job, but he brings hope that things can be different. If that itself is capable of improving’s people’s attitude then that is worth the change.
Good luck on the next elections to all americans, I hope you guys realize that what is at stake here is not only the destiny of the United States, but how big portion of the world can be impacted as a result of the election.
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what company hires a 72 year old man? not very many
intelligence > experience in most scenarios. Once you have 4 years on the national stage the learning curve is diminished quite a bit. Plus the basics of human biology mccains mind cant be the sharpest even in its prime it got him to near bottom of his class.