This is some more extended views I have from this past election. Now, just to remind some of you, I did not vote for Obama just because he was a White Sox fan, nor being he was African-American even though I have always wanted to see an African-American president in the office since I was little. I have voted Obama for being that I would think he would be much more fair to the people in this country, help unify the United States more than just being separated as Red and Blue states, and to help pull troops out of an area of the world where are presence is not needed and just stop wasting soldiers’ lives in the process. Also, with getting out of a war that has literally turned into another Vietnam will help out our economy, considering that the last administration drained all the country’s resources into while leaving the citizens with nothing. Too, being Obama is African-American, or technically only half but in other case just having someone with that ethnicity can finally put an end to bigotry that plagued this nation for many years. Even after forty years of the Civil Right movement, there still needed to be some work done to gain better relations with all races in this nation, and I think Obama is the glue to put it all together. Now, that me mind you, I am a person with both views that can be seen as Republican and Democrat. I used to be someone that completely despised Republicans, mainly just siding with Democrats no matter what they said or their policies were. However, as I have gotten older, I began to respect some Republican views, considering I had the same view as well. For instance, Republicans do support many rich and wealthy people. Now, some people may see that as a problem, but if you look into it more, you’ll understand why. Most wealthy people in this nation are employers, people that own businesses and do help create jobs for people. I do support tax breaks for people that are employers because that means those companies they own will not be leaving our country to go somewhere else to have they’re labor being much cheaper. This is something that does need to be changed, there needs to be someone in the office to help keep industries and other companies coming into this country and also staying here for our citizens to have work, because if they’re isn’t employment within the people in a country, then goods are not being bought, and therefore businesses start closing down and no money is coming into government through taxes. That I do support for, also there are some Democrats that get so Liberal, they want to try to edit the Constitution. I mean, trying to get rid of the second amendment, which is the right to bear arms, is something sort of blasphemy for citizens in this country. That is a God given right for all Americans to do this, how many other countries in the world allows this right? No too many, so why get rid of it, because there are some irresponsible people in the nation that take advantage of this right or use it in a negative way? I have a solution, shoot them. Use the amendment in a good way by solving the problem with it. Also, who in their right minds would ever want to change the word God in the Pledge of Allegiance? There is a reason for that word being in there, this country was founded under a vision of God, not anything else. I’m not saying here that you should be a Christian, Jewish, or Muslim, which are the known religions that do have one God, but there is no need to change the Pledge of Allegiance. This nation was founded under religious standpoints, it would be wrong for it to be changed. I mean, if it offends people, then those people don’t need to be American. It’s time for this nation to stop getting offended so easily, because it’s starting to get to the point there are pointless laws being passed to where someone has to keep an eye on what they say to someone without offending them. Now, that is my Republican side, but what really makes me a little more Democrat is that I am for gay marriage. Now, that may seem hypocritical for me because I am Christian, but the reason why I do support this is to me, seeing a law to ban gay marriage being passed is like repeating the old Jim Crow laws that took a lot of African-American rights away in the south. It looks like a stepping stone to more gay bashing laws which this country does not need to have nor repeat the same kind of oppression that dawned this nation over a century ago. I support help for needy families, especially single mothers trying to take care for their children, but in my opinion I think the welfare system in this country is too laid back with it policies and it should tighten up the rules a little more with it. I mean, there are too many people that take advantage of the system and I would like to see a change to where those people are not milking the government anymore. However, there are going to be a lot of tasks coming for Mr. Obama, like he said in his victory speech, it may take longer than one term to repair the damage the previous administration has done to our nation.
