Talking Politics

Many were shocked when John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate in the presidential race. Since then Obama’s campaign has been questioning her experience. Yet, it seems that McCain was prepared for just this thing and is fighting back.

John McCain stated to the American people that Palin is more experienced and qualified then Obama and would be a better change for the White House. One of their new television ads describes Palin as an “Alaska Maverick” due to her record as being a “bipartisan reformer” and stating in the same ad that Obama was “most liberal” in the Senate.

Michelle Obama did her part to jump start the Democratic National Convention this week and gave a speech on why she loved the United States and the people that live in it. The wife of Senator Barack Obama has finally revealed that she does indeed love this country. This came after her husband became one of the candidates for presidency.

Barack Obama and John McCain will be holding three presidential debates and at least one vice presidential debate in the fall. This week they decided on the outlined formats, locations, and the dates that they would meet on.

The first debate will be September 26th at the University of Mississippi and will be on the foreign policy and national security. Both parties will answer questions given to them by Jim Lehrer - the moderator. On Oct. 7, the two will meet again for a town-hall style debate at Belmont University. Moderator Tom Brokaw will call on audience members and pose questions submitted through the Internet.

Idaho was in charge of making Democratic campaign buttons to support Barack Obama and his run for presidency. However, the buttons were not made to exact specification. On the buttons was a picture of Democratic Barack Obama and next to him was Republican Senator Larry Craig.

Despite what the buttons say this is not going to happen. It seems that the manufacturer who was making the buttons chose the wrong Larry from Idaho.

Barack Obama - the Democratic presidential candidate - has promised to aid Afghanistan in the talks with their Western-backed leader and to continue with the war on terror “with vigor” if he is elected. During the second day of the international tour Obama and other U.S. senators talked for two hours with President Hamid Karzai in the capital of Afghan.

Barack Obama told voters on Saturday that he will be pushing for a more aggressive economic agenda if he wins the presidency by raising taxes on the wealthy, lowering taxes for the middle class, and putting money into “green energy” and making sure that more employees will be given retirement saving plans.

While many of the presidential candidates are stressing and drawing up ideas on who could be their Vice President Senator John McCain says that it is no problem for him. All he needs to do is Google the question and he’ll find his answer.

John McCain joked this week that he could use the popular search engine – Google – to investigate and find him a Vice President. “You know, basically it’s a Google,” he said to laughter at a fund-raising luncheon when asked how the selection process was going. “What you can find out now on the Internet — it’s remarkable.”

Senator Hilary Clinton has finally made the decision to end her presidential bid this weekend while in Washington, D.C. Surrounding her were her faithful supporters who were less than happy and also a bit angry by the look of their faces. She became famous as being the nation’s first woman to run for presidential nominee and now it is over.

There are only two Democratic primaries left and Senator Barack Obama is ready and prepared for the final part of the race. Clinton on the other hand is determining whether or not she should stay in the race or call it quits. Many believe that she is staying in only to delay the fact that she lost.

Senator Hilary Clinton has hoped and planned on beating out Obama during an early knockout on Super Tuesday. Obama on the other hand has prepared and researched the congressional districts in the states with the primaries that were still months away. Because of this they have planned to win delegates even after they would have lost some states.