McCain For President

When I sat down and weighed the pros and cons of each of the presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, the choice became very obvious to me. My views and positions on problems with the economy, foreign policies, and domestic affairs all seemed to line up with those of John McCain. Due to that, if I could vote in the 2008 election I would vote for John McCain.

In a 2007 statement, McCain said, “In health care, we believe in enhancing the freedom of individuals to receive necessary and desired care. We do not believe in coercion and the use of state power to mandate care, coverage or costs.” I completely agree with that and basically how McCain is against publicly funded health care. His plan focuses on enhancing competition in the health care industry as a way to lower costs which I think is a better way to keep the taxes down in order to have health care work. That way everyone can have access to health care without it being publicly provided. Then there are tax credits, $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families who do not have access to health care through their employer. He says the money could be used to purchase insurance and force insurance companies to be competitive with their costs in order to attract consumers. Another aspect of the economy that I agree with McCain in is with tax cuts. While McCain has historically opposed tax cuts in favor of deficit reduction, he now favors tax cuts. He says that he would reduce government spending to make up for the tax cuts. I believe that that is a good idea so that there is more money within the people to make wiser decisions to help out our economy by exporting more than we import. That means sacrifice and I think that with tax cuts it will help make the sacrifice much easier. Lastly, in regards to the economy I agree with his views on Social Security. As of May 2008, McCain's web site says, “John McCain will fight to save the future of Social Security and believes that we may meet our obligations to the retirees of today and the future without raising taxes. John McCain supports supplementing the current Social Security system with personal accounts -- but not as a substitute for addressing benefit promises that cannot be kept.” I agree with this because I think in order for the younger generation to reap the benefits of social security it needs to be preserved and that is what he is working on. So I agree with many of McCain’s economic views.

In addition, many of McCain’s beliefs dealing with foreign policy are the same as mine. To begin with I believe that we should stay in Iraq and McCain thinks the same. On January 3, 2008 when a questioner said, "President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years," McCain responded, “Make it a hundred. We've been in Japan for 60 years; we've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That'd be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. That's fine with me. I hope it will be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Quaeda is training, recruiting, equipping, and motivating people every single day." I totally agree with that. If we have already been in there for so long we might as well stay and finish what we began or all the lives and all those who were injured there would have gone to waste. Lastly, I agree with his view on how we should "strengthen our global alliances as the core of a new global compact -- a League of Democracies -- that can harness the vast influence of the more than one hundred democratic nations around the world to advance our values and defend our shared interests." I believe that the United States would be no where, and will go no farther if we do not have alliances with other countries. So overall, I agree with McCain on key issues of foreign policy.

Furthermore, when it comes to domestic affairs McCain supports my views on many subjects. I am completely, with no question about it, pro-life except in certain cases. McCain supports those beliefs. McCain has stated that he believes human life begins at the moment of conception and that embryos should be afforded full human rights. In June 1984, McCain voted for "An amendment to define "person" as including unborn children from the moment of conception." McCain has said he supports amending the U.S. Constitution to ban abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, or risk to the mother's life. McCain has voted 119 times on pro-life measures, so I believe he will continue to vote on the same side in the future. Lastly, he believes and has promoted the legislation and eventually the granting of citizenship of an estimated 12–20 million illegal aliens in the United States. I believe that we have a good life and we should share it with people who are less fortunate and whose governments oppress them. John McCain’s domestic positions agree with mine which is another reason why I would vote for him.

So in conclusion, due to the fact that John McCain shares the same positions and idealology when it comes to economics, foreign policies and domestic issues, I would vote for him. He represents many aspects in politics that I would want to be represented. I know he would fight for my beliefs since we have those in common. McCain for President.