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As the Republican primary looms to reveal each candidate’s fate, I can’t help but wonder about my peers. I religiously follow each debate, speech, tweet and the mass of news articles circulating the web and strongly feel they should too.
Recently, I began to notice how many people lost their jobs and how many places in my community closed. That was my point of no return. It was an “eat, breathe and sleep” mentality for politics, this was to make sure when I vote for the first time this year I would make the right decision. I’m not going to center this editorial on everything I’ve become obsessed with. That would require me to write a book.
Here’s what I want you to understand: don’t support a candidate merely because others are. It’s clear to people my age and to those older that Ron Paul has captured the attention and support of many young people. Now, there’s nothing wrong with this, but when I engage in a conversation based on politics, I want more intelligent responses! Something more than “you should vote for Ron Paul because he doesn’t care about anything!” What? Why would I want a President who cares about nothing?
Another thing that just makes me shake my head in disbelief is when people firmly believe that Obama did a horrible job as President. He took office right after Bush, when the nation was at staggering unemployment rate, and when the Katrina disaster struck. Obama has created more private sector jobs in 2010 than Bush did in his entire Presidency, cut Medicare costs by 50%, appointed the first Latina to the Supreme court, closed Guantanamo Bay, repealed the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy (DADT), and bought down Osama Bin Laden. To claim Obama did nothing without evidence to support your claim is foolish. Don’t get me wrong; there are some things Obama has done that I don’t agree with, such as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). However, I feel his accomplishments during these four years have significantly out weighted his troughs.
I can go on forever about my opinions on politics, but the aim was to help my peers “see the light” so to speak and I hope I did that. President Obama has done an stupendous job and I respect what he has accomplished. Being a leader isn’t an easy task, I would know.
