This was originally an email I sent to friends and famliy:
I just donated $40 to the Obama campaign. It’s not much, but small donations like that are part of what has made his campaign unique and special. Regular people are funding his campaign, not huge corporations with special interests.
I decided to donate to Obama because I have become very passionate about politics over the last year or so and believe that he is the change that this country needs to start moving in the right direction again. I was encouraged to donate by my brother Warren, who has been sending the campaign regular monthly payments for a quite a while now. Since I can’t vote, this is the best way that I can help. With Obama as president, we can rebuild our image as the moral leader of the world. Obama will be able to reverse the disastrous mistakes made in the last 8 years.
I lost all respect for McCain after he chose Governor Palin as his running mate. It is an incredibly shallow choice which exposes McCain’s attempt to attract white woman who supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries. Not only is the choice of Governor Palin purely political, she is also someone who believes that abstinence should be the only form of sex education taught in schools - even while her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. She also doesn’t believe that women should have the right to an abortion, and doesn’t believe in evolution. She also has very little experience, with her foreign policy experience consisting of being next to Russia.
I believe that a good president is smart and surrounds himself with people who are educated about important issues, and who may sometimes have conflicting points of views on various issues. This worked very well with Kennedy and his advisors during the “ExComm” meetings during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Even though Obama does not have as much experience as McCain (although certainly more than Palin), I am confident that he will surround himself with smart people and be will have an open mind and make the right decisions on important issues. McCain, so far, has surrounded himself with Governor Palin and her family of 7 (Soon to be 8.) while Obama has chosen Joe Biden, someone who has over 30 years of political experience under his belt.
So, I support Obama not just because I don’t like McCain (specifically what the political process has turned him into.) I support him because he is educated, smart, and understands the lives of Americans in a way that McCain never will. How is one supposed to understand what Americans affected by the mortgage crisis are going through when they themselves have 8 houses? After all, shouldn’t our president know about some of the problems being faced by the people they govern?
