Political Humor

Simple political cartoon that shows a "thumbs down" that has written on it the reason as to why our economy is in bad shape. The purpose of this cartoon is to show that our country needs more leadership and less arguments from the many politicians that "lead" our country.

http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/5d007e35-f2ef-4740-b387-66cf9dcd56de.html

Who do I agree with about our environment?

After studying both Barack Obama and John McCain's plans for our enviroment, I find it tough to simply decide on just one or the other. Each candidate, in my opinion, has certain traits that I like and others that I dislike. If I had to choose one however, I'd probably lean towards McCain's ideas. I think this is partially due to the fact that I have done more research on him than Obama, and thus know a little bit more about his plans. As I said before, there are certain things that I agree with on McCain, and there are others that I don't. For example, I definately support his ideas of discovering cleaner alternative sources of energy, but I don't think his "clean car challenge" will be very sucessful. If it truly has a lot of potential, I do support his plan for putting a greater emphasis on coal and its qualities.

Issues that matter to me

The war in Iraq
Our country's economy
Immigration

Liberal

I was classified as a liberal after taking the quiz yesterday. I was honest with all of my answers, and the description that was given to me seemed to make sense. The one thing that I need to keep in mind however is that my answers to these questions my vary from time to time. It is for this reason that I feel I can change from liberal to conservative...

Republican Convention Blog

I was able to watch the Republican Convention in bits and pieces whenever I could, and I noticed that it was very similar Democratic Convention is some ways, even though the faction and its beliefs were entirely different. The Republicans spoke about their strengths and how much McCain would help the country if he was elected. I found the beginning of Palin's speech to be overly corny when she was introducing her family and everyone was smiling through their teeth. Once again the energy was high throughout the course of the convention, and it's obvious that each candidate has his own group of followers. What I am curious about however is how many people changed sides from one group to another after these conventions. I believe that is what would measure true success. Watching these conventions was an entirely new experience for me, and it helped with my undertanding of our country's political process.

Democratic Convention Blog (Revised)

I found that the DNC had a combination of positive and negative traits (just as I expected). I did find the speeches to be both passionate and informative, and was particularly impressed with both Michelle and Barack Obama's speeches, as well as Joe Biden's. Although the amount of energy both the candidates and the crowd had at the convention was exciting, I found it to be a little too extreme after a while. I mean, for something as serious as a political convention, the whole thing seemed too much like a rock concert with people yelling and screaming the whole time...