If you like politics at all, then in the last few weeks Plymouth State would've been the place for you. In the past few weeks, we have had 3 Presidential candidates speak to us about their plans for the future, and for the future and next four years or our nation. Two of those candidates are the front runners of the Democratic Nomination. New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
The first of these candidates was Obama. He arrived at PSU last Tuesday, October 9th. Loads of people, both students of Plymouth State and towns people from Plymouth. We all squeezed into the HUB Courtroom to hear what he had to say. Barack Obama had a lot of good points. He, along with countless Americans and pretty much everyone who was there that night, is frustrated with an administration who has an all talk no action policy, and an administration who lied to us as Americans and told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when there were none. Obama also talked about a health care plan that I feel is 100% accurate. His health care plan is such. Barack Obama's salary is paid for by us, the tax payer. His health care plan says that all Americans, young and old, will have the exact health care plan that he himself has. His philosophy is that if we, the American tax payer, is paying for his salary than we as Americans shouldn't get a health care plan less than the one he himself enjoys.
I was actually fortunate enough to ask Obama a question and this is what I asked. "In 2002 we had a situation where former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez wrote a memorandum to George W. Bush telling him to secretly opt of his obligations to the Geneva Convention. Then in 20o4 we had a situation at Abu Ghraib, a special camp in Iraq where many Iraqi's were illegally tortured. What is you're stance on torture and how do you feel about the actions of Bush and Gonzales?" He followed this up by saying "No torture." He said that he does not and has never condoned torture because it's inhumane. As for the actions of Bush and Gonzales he said that what they did was inexcusable and would never happen with him as President.
As for Hillary, her speech, which occurred two days later, only focused on the lowering of College tuition and related college issues. I felt that Clinton used people, like the girl from Laconia, NH. The girl ho was there was a junior in HS and was tops in her class, but with a single parent household, didn't know how she' be able to afford college. After she told her story I felt that Hillary was too fake in saying that she felt bad and had compassion for what was happening to them. I felt that what Hillary wanted to do wasn't a very good idea, notably her wanting to get rid of the FAFSA because we spend "100 million hours" a year filling out the paper work, which is a complete lie because there's no paper work for the FAFSA, it's all online. I don't like how she's going to raise the Pell Grant and the Hope Tax but never said how she'd get the money. Not to mention the the Pell Grant wouldn't go up to $5400, according to her, until 2012, which would be the senior year in college, for the current seniors in HS. I had some agreements with her on some of her issues, but for the most part i disagreed with all of her stand points.
Having said all of this, I am a very strong supporter of Barack Obama. He's a great man, he's confident about what he believes in, and one thing I see in him, that I don't see in the other candidates is that he's excited to change America. That's something you don't see in Presidential hopefuls these days. I have, and will continue to support Senator Obama on his quest to be the nest President of the United States.
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