Politics

I was explaining my idea of the politics of the upcoming election with some friends at work and drew this handy chart:

The basic premise of my drawing is that right now Obama has a lot of love from the democrats, but probably not that good of chance of winning. Not everyone likes Hillary and she has no chance to win. McCain is NUTS and will probably win, he is just W for another 4 years. So, in my plan (some of this was taken from an MSN opinion piece that I read) Obama would drop out of the race citing he wants to throw his full endorsement to Hillary and that it is for the good of the democratic party (right now Hillary and Obama are hurting each other in this race). He would then spend the next four years actually trying to improve his record in congress, try to implement some of the things he has talked about in his candidacy.

A race between Hillary and McCain would end up in a McCain (BOOOOO!) victory most likely. McCain's four years would be like keeping W for four more years and things in this country would get even worse. In 2012 the democrats would not allow Hillary to run again (after losing this year) and Obama would run unopposed for the democrats.

If Obama spends the four years actually trying to implement some change he will crush any opponent in 2012 and will basically walk into the white house with the experience and the track record that a president should have.

For the record, I actually prefer Hillary to Obama and would never even consider voting for McCain. In the general election I will be voting for whomever the Democratic candidate is.

We will see what happens in the upcoming months, I just hope whomever wins will actually try to start making things better for America. There is some pretty easy things that can be done, how about we take half of all the monies we send out of the US and keep it for internal programs? That would be billions of dollars on infrastructure improvements or tax breaks. How about we start getting the Peace Corps to work in the US instead of sending them to other places in the world? I just think it is time for the US to think of ourselves more than other places. I had a boss that once said, "Before you try to go do extra things for others, make sure you can take care of yourself." That rings pretty true about now.