hitncry
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Edited: 8/31/2008 6:44:50 PM by hitncry
I don't think this should be in "Minitruckin General" It's more of an off topic thread.
Personally as of now I plan to vote Obama for a multitude of reasons. One being the fact that he's a really good public speaker, which might not seem like a big issue to some people, but I am so sick of watching our current president fumble over every sentence that exits his mouth. If you watch an Obama speech he doesn't fumble over his words at all. To me that shows a strong visual and audible sense of leadership in a very media driven America. I don't think people should believe that the next president will change the world overnight, but the idea of change over time for most americans is a good thing.
As far as experience goes he's got Biden. As well as the fact that there have been plenty of people in american history who have done great things at a young age, even in our lifetime. Bill Clinton (who i'd vote for if I could) was considered inexperienced when he was running and elected for his 1st term.
* Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balanced budget and a reported federal surplus.
* Clinton left office with a 65% approval rating, the highest end-of-presidency rating of any President that came into office after World War II.
* In August 1993, Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, which passed Congress without a single Republican vote. It cut taxes for 15 million low-income families, made tax cuts available to 90% of small businesses,[37] and raised taxes on the wealthiest 1.2% of taxpayers[38]. Additionally, it mandated that the budget be balanced over a number of years, through the implementation of spending restraints.
* In 1994, Clinton sent U.S. forces to Haiti as part of the negotiated restoration of Jean-Bertrand Aristide