So this post was from a month or two ago, but I think it is quite interesting. The main problem I feel that effects American voters is the "best sounding idea", not the most realistic. Obama has plans on providing healthcare coverage to the 47 million Americans that currently do not have it. SOUNDS GREAT RIGHT? Well what this article goes on to say is that 1/3 of those 47 million Americans have the money for the insurance, but they just do not buy it. Now I am not saying anything like Obama has not thought out his ideas, I mean I should trust a man who graduated from Harvard right? And that is my point, HECK NO. Americans fall into the trap of voting based on these ideal proposals, but this one example shows that there are many controversial things with this plan and Americans need to see everything before they vote for the president who is going to stop World Hunger and bring World Peace.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2007
/11/obama_rides_the_wine_track.html
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This is kind of similiar in terms of critiquing Obama...I was reading an opinion piece by Reza Aslan in which he refutes the idea that Obama's ethnicity will help with America's image in the Middle East, arguing that a hypothetical Muslim boy in the Middle East "could not care less who the president of the United States is. He is totally unconcerned with whatever barriers a black (or female, for that matter) president would be breaking...He cares only about one thing: what the United States will do."
As well as:
"That boy is angry at the United States not because its presidents have all been white. He is angry because of Washington's unconditional support for Israel; because the United States has more than 150,000 troops in Iraq; because the United States gives the dictator of his country some $2 billion a year in aid, the vast majority of which goes toward supporting a police state. He is angry at the United States because he thinks it has hegemony over almost every aspect of his world."
I just thought this was an interesting point of view.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122801899.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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