In the upcoming 2008 presidential election, the candidates are Barrack Obama and John McCain. I will not only vote for Obama because he is an African American Democrat, but also I believe his plans to lower taxes for the middle class and to rid our country of debt is much better than McCains. Even though I don’t think America is ready for a black president, I would rather have anyone but McCain in office. I believe he will follow in the shoes of George W. Bush and lead our country into another senseless war.
I. Biography
In an article called Barrack Obama on the Bio website, it explains exactly where Obama came from. Barrack Obama is a U.S. Senator from Illinois and the first African American to become a Presidential Nominee for a U.S. Major Political Party. Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He grew up herding goats with his father, Barrack Obama Sr., who was a domestic servant to the British. Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita Kansas. Dunham’s mother worked on a bomber assembly line during World War 2. After the war they bought a house through the Federal Housing Program and moved to Hawaii. At the time of his birth Obama’s parents were students at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His parents separated when Obama was two years old and divorced. His mother later married Lolo Soetoro, another student from the East-West Center in Indonesia. In 1967, the family moved to Jarkarta, where Obama’s half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng was born. Obama attended schools in Jarkata where classes were taught in the Indonesian language. When Obama was ten he returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and later his mother who died of ovarian cancer in 1995. He graduated with honors in 1979 at Punahou Academy, and was only one of three black students at the school. Obama saw his biological father only once after he died in a car accident in 1982. He admitted...