Obama or Mccain?

Well I am not an American but this is no ordinary election. The amount of coverage this election has been given all over the world beats the coverage given to any other election.

First of all I would like to say that I am not biased in anyone’s favour.While Mccain had an easier Presidential nominee race, Obama had a tougher one against Hillary Clinton who did a great job of fighting upto the very end before giving up.

But now the actual fight starts. While Mccain has to fight problems like anti-incumbency, as George Bush has not done a very good job which everyone can see. Obama has to fight against prejudices against him that he is very young and has only charisma and no substance.

Both their choices for their running mates were also pretty interesting. While Obama chose Biden who is a veteran in the Senate to offset claims that he inexperienced, Mccain chose Palin so that he could try and gather the Democratic voters who were disgruntled by Hillary Clinton’s loss to his side.

During the Presidential Nominee race i was on Hillary Clinton’s side and i wanted her to win and then when she lost i wanted Mccain to win. But when I was talking to my father he said something which made me review the stand that i was taking. Just because he’s new compared to Mccain doesn’t mean that Obama won’t do a good job.And why shouldn’t he be president after all he will represent the epitome of the Great American Dream won’t he? An African American with no previous claims in politics becoming president and thus becoming the first Black President of the USA.

Many might argue here that because Obama is black he is getting all this attention. But I would like to ask those people a few questions. First, even if he is black can he fake his charisma?NO.Second,if in a hypothetical situation Mccain was black then who would u support? The answer would be Obama. Third, who knows Obama might have got the same attention even if he had been white.

I am not against Mccain, but is he not the part of the same system that George Bush is? Though whatever be his faults it takes a lot of courage to declare war against countries. He might be reviled for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and my condolences to those who have lost family members in these places. But just reflect here, there is so much of a fuss about the death of about 10000 US soldiers what about the hundreds of civilians who die everyday in bomb blasts in the above two countries and else where which has led to civilian casualties in Iraq mostly to be about 7-8 times at least that of the dead US soldiers. Anyway that is the subject for another post.

If u feel that my article is wrong in any way or that i have taken things out of context please do inform me.

~ by Anirudh on October 11, 2008.