Anthony Tyler Mr. SpenceFall class

10/16/2008

Election 2008

Barack Obama: Early Life

• Barack, left his white mother Ann in Hawaii in 1963.

• After his mum remarried he spent four years in Indonesia

• He later admitted he struggled with his identity — but snaps show a happy sports

Barack Obama: Later/Current Life

• Obama has been in the U.S. Senate since January 2005. • Obama becomes first black editor of prestigious Harvard Law

Review • Obama publishes "The Audacity of Hope," a book detailing his

views on national affairs. Works with Senate Republicans to limit nuclear proliferation and shed light on wasteful government spending.

• Palin elected first female governor of Alaska• Obama wins marathon Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton

and raises record amounts of money

McCain's Early Life !

• McCain's early years in the military • Prisoner of war

• Attending a military reception. While there, he met a young, blond former cheerleader from

Phoenix named Cindy Hensley. • McCain needed a divorce from Carol, his wife of

14 years from whom he was separated

John McCain: later/current life

• Senate for 22 years

• Never imposed a litmus test on Supreme Court nominees

• We've laid a $10 trillion debt on our young people

• Equal pay for equal work case was a trial lawyer's dream

Vp: Sarah Palin• Sept. 30, 2008 | Is this the week that Democrats and Republicans join hands to heap

pity on poor Sarah Palin? • Elopes with tod palin her high school sweetheart • FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – Along a brisk airstrip here, Gov. Sarah Palin, now the

Republican vice presidential candidate, on Thursday sent off her son, Track, and thousands of other soldiers during a deployment ceremony as they prepared to leave for Iraq.

• In Wasilla, Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin's hometown

Vp: Joseph Biden

• Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee for vice president

• departed Sunday from party doctrine on abortion rights, declaring that as a Catholic, he believes life begins at conception.

• While Mr. Biden's views may not be new to Democrats in his circle his comments, in an interview on "Meet the Press" on NBC, came at a time when his party is confronted with a new face: Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, whose anti-abortion stance and decision to give birth just five months ago to a baby with Down syndrome have revved up the conservative base of her party.

• Biden Campaigning With Ease After Hardships

The Environment and Global Warming

• John McCain Create green jobs to help economy & environment Voted YES on including oil & gas smokestacks in mercury regulations Voted YES on confirming Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior Voted YES on transportation demo projectsVoted NO on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests. Voted NO on continuing desert protection in California Voted YES on requiring EPA risk assessments

• Barack Obama All nations must act to reduce carbon emissions. $150B over 10 years to establish a green energy sector. $150B investment over 10 years to reduce oil usage by 35%. Figure out how to sequester carbon and burn clean coal.GOP right on cap-&-trade: guidelines instead of bureaucracy. Aggressively address accelerating climate change. Cap-and-trade carbon emissions; raise CAFE standard. Cap-and-trade is more specific on reducing greenhouse gases. 20% nation's power supply from renewable sources by 2020.

War & Peace • Obama said at the time that the increase in roughly 30,000 US troops in Iraq could

improve security in "certain neighborhoods" but that it would not solve the long-term political strife between Iraq's ethnic and religious groups. "I don't think there's been any doubt that if we put US troops in that, in the short term, we might see some improvement in certain neighborhoods," he said in March 2007. In a September 2007 speech Obama said "the stated purpose of the surge was to enable Iraq's leaders to reconcile. Our troops fight and die in the 120-degree heat to give Iraq's leaders space to agree, but they aren't filling it."

• McCAIN: The next president of the United States is not going to have to address the issue as to whether we went into Iraq or not. The next president of the United States is going to have to decide how we leave, when we leave, and what we leave behind. That's the decision of the next president of the us. Sen. Obama said the surge could not work, said it would increase sectarian violence, said it was doomed to failure. Recently on a television program, he said it exceed our wildest expectations. But yet, after conceding that, he still says that he would oppose the surge if he had to decide that again today.

Health Care • John McCain Get healthcare records online to reduce costs. Mandated

heath insurance is Big Government at its best. Put health records online, to reduce medical errors Health care is a responsibility: just make it available. FactCheck: Plan is $5,000 per family, not $5,000 per person. Brining together smart Americans to solve Medicare. $5,000 refundable tax credit for every family. Family should make health decisions, not federal government. FactCheck: Obama's plan is voluntary for adults. FactCheck:

• McCain's $5,000 health tax credit would be taxed. Barack Obama Health care is a right: something's fundamentally wrong now. FactCheck: Exempts small business, but no $2,500/yr savings. Health tax credit is bad idea; it will cost taxpayers more. $15B subsidies to private insurers was a lobbyist giveaway. FactCheck: McCain's plan taxes employees, not employers. Give more help to those denied a life of dignity & respect.

Education

• Barack Obama on Education Invest in early childhood education and higher education. Fight for social & economic justice begins in the classroom. To compete, students need at least H.S. & college degree. Pay for college education for those who commit to teaching. We need real commitment to education; instead we got NCLB. $10 billion to guarantee early childhood education for all. Merit pay ok if based on career instead of a single test.

• John McCain on Education I want schools to answer to parents and students. Pay bonuses to teachers in the most troubled schools. Target funding to recruit top graduates as teachers. Direct $750 million to build virtual schools. Give parents easier access to obtain help for their children. Shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition. Teaching creationism should be decided by school districts.

Jobs

• Barack Obama on Jobs Solution to financial crisis is more job creation. End incentives that move jobs overseas. Fight attacks on workers' right to organize & strike. Focus farm programs on family farms, not giant corporations. Paying more at Wal-Mart is worth it for having US jobs. Give public safety officers collective

Bargaining rights. John McCain on Jobs Cut business taxes so companies will keep jobs in US. Help workers find new jobs that won't go away. Voted against minimum wage 19 times, when in pork bills. Raising taxes eliminates jobs. Produce jobs by producing America's own energy. Overhaul unemployment insurance as a retraining program. Straight talk:

Barack Obama

• I feel that he should be president because that I like the things he is doing for us as tax-wise and for the people I have to agree with a lot he is doing.