(BiM)–The Chronicles

So Obama has pick Biden as his running mate. A small group of Obama’s election team helped him make the decision. This team hopes that Biden will compliment Obama traits as well as help him in the election.

Jo Biden is a sixth term senator from Delaware. He has been involved in two presidental campaigns to date. The First campaign took place before I was born in 1988. He was also running in this election cycle 2008, but could not complete with Obama or Clinton.

Some Hillary Clinton supporters are rather disappointed. They were hoping that Obama would pick Clinton as his running mate. However it appears that Clinton was never considered as an Vice Presidential candidate. I believe that if he had chosen Clinton, that Obama would have easily won the election. However Obama is try to pick the right V.P. for when he gets into office and not just someone who will help him win the election.

For the past two months people have been so busy yelling about the presidential race that I had to take a breather. I realized that most of the people don’t know what they are talking about. Next to no one understands that true policies of either candidate.

So I went looking for a site that had the answers. A site that compares each of the candidates policies side by side. I found one. I was surprised.

Most of McCain’s and Obama’s policies are similar. They both try to do the same thing but in different ways. Obama has more of a “the government should invest and spend” kind of attitude. McCain: not so much. However, both want to fix health care, the economy, education and invest in alternative energy. But of course, they are not the same candidate.

Wedge issues aside, there are two main things that separate McCain’s policies from Obama’s policies: taxes and the rest of the world.

If I am to over simply things, McCain is more of a war hawk. He believes that the United Sates needs to be protected from the enemies that are in rouge states like Iran, North Korea, and Russia. He will stay in Iraq for as long as it takes to win.

Obama is much more of peace dove. He wants to use the UN to solve the world problem and believes that Unites States with it’s power can take action and stop crisis, like Darfur, from getting out of control.

Again this is an over simplification.

As for taxes McCain is for tax cuts. He want to give the biggest tax cut to those that make the most money.

Obama is not so much for tax cuts. Instead he’s more for tax rearrangement. He want to increase taxes on the rich and decrease taxes on the poor.

Taxation Source

So from reading and researching, those are the main differences between Obama and McCain when it comes to policies that matter.

So if you actually care about what the candidates will do when and if they get into office. Go to http://candidatessidebyside.com/issues-pres.html. I found it very useful.

I encourage everyone to look at the policies. Ignore the stupid commercials and campaign slogans because they are pointless and will not solve the countries problems.