Thursday, December 25, 2008

Presidential Candidates

Republican Candidate

McCain

McCain was born into a military family on August 29, 1936, in the Panama Canal on a naval station. He moved around a lot as a child. He graduated the elite Episcopal high school in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1954 with honors.

He had much to live up to because of his family’s rich military history. His father and grandfather both where four stare generals in the US Navy. He graduated the naval academy in 1958, in the bottom five of his class. He set out for Vietnam in 1967 as a naval pilot. On his 23 bombing of North Vietnam his airplane was shot down and he was captured.
He was put in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp. Soon the Vietnamese found out that he was the general’s son, so they tried to relies him. He refused to leave because of an honor code, “first in, first out.” Finally he was released five years later on March 14, 1973.

Graduated National War College in Washington, D.C. in and received a promotion to captain in 1977. After serving in the Navy for 22 years he ended his service in 1981. He became a congress man in 1982. In 1985 he was elected into the senate. He was elected US senator in 1986, and has been reelected 3 times.

In 1980 he divorced his first wife and only one month later he married his second wife named Cindy Hensly. He now has seven children with her. Latter in 1999 he wrote his first book, Faith of My Fathers, about his family’s military history and his experience as a POW. One of McCain’s strongest views is that of shrinking the difference between church and state.

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin was born on February 11, 1964, in Sandpoint Idaho. Her family moved to Alaska when she was only 3 months old because of her parents school jobs. She grew up about 40 miles north of Anchorage in a small town of Wasilla.

She earned her bachelors degree in journalism in the University of Idaho in 1987. She later became a sports television reporter in Anchorage. She started politicks in 1992 by winning a seat on the Wasilla City Council by opposing tax hikes. 1996 she was elected mayor of Wasilla. As mayor she cut property taxis and reduced spending taxis. In 2002 she ran for governor but lost by less than 2000 votes. She was appointed to chair in 2003 of gas and oil conservation. 2006 she won governor by more than eight percent. Before she was elected governor she was for a 400 million dolor bridge, but after she became governor she changed her view and is now against it. She is strongly against abortion and said, “Even if my doter was raped I would be extremely opposes to her having an abortion.


Democratic Candidate

Brock Obama

Brock Obama was born in August 4, 1961, in Honolulu Hawaii. He graduated with honors in 1979 from Punahou Academy. Obama studies at Occidental College in LA for two years. He later transferred to Colombia University in NY. There he graduated with a degree in political sconce in 1983. 1985 he moved to Chicago Roseland community with low income residents. 1986 he interred Harvard law school.

After law school he returned to Chicago. There he taught at University of Chicago Law School. He was elected into Illinois State Senate in 1996. He failed at U.S. House of Representatives in 2000. In 2003 he was elected into the House of Representatives by only two percent.

He has been against the Iraq war since the beginning. He believes the biggest issue is the economy. He is against the big tax cuts brought on by Bush and wants to dramatically reduce them compared to McCain who wants to keep the big tax cuts.

Joe Biden

Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He received a bachelors degree from University of Delaware in 1965 and a law degree from Syracuse University in New York in 1968. Joe Biden started a law firm in Wilmington, Delaware which he worked at until 1972.

He currently teaches a seminar on constitutional law at Syracuse University. He has three children, Hunter, Beau, and Ashley. Hunter is Delaware’s attorney general, Ashley is a social worker, and Beau is a lawyer.

4 comments:

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Anonymous said...

you need to work on finding what happened in his life that makes them support what they do.

JWachowiak said...
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JWachowiak said...

McCain:
I feel the major viewpoint you wanted to stress about this candidate is his place in the military and his past experience in the political office. I think this because it shows he knows a lot about what it will be like to be in a political office that makes very important decisions. I thought it was interesting that you included that McCain wants to make less of a difference between church and state because I did not know this before I read your blog. Something that your blog leaves me wondering is that I do not know his viewpoints on the political problems of the United States.

Obama:
I feel the major viewpoint you wanted to stress about this candidate is his education. I think this because you talk a lot about where he went to school and how he taught at the University of Chicago Law School. I thought it was interesting that you included everywhere Obama went to school because I did not know this about him until reading your blog. One thing that your blog leaves me wondering is how Obama is going to reduce taxes, and still help pay for those who need the money more than us.