Current Event #6

This week's current event is from an article on msnbc.com called "McCain says Bush failed in a number of areas" by Alex Johnson.

The article discusses how McCain feels about Bush's administration and that Bush's unpopularity is the biggest obstacle for the Republican Party in this election. He wants to remind the voters that he is not George W. Bush. He claims that he agreed with Bush 90% of the time but on important issues such as the economy, the environment, and the war in Iraq, he is disagreed with by his own party. McCain showed up on "Meet the Press" for the 41st anniversary of when he was shot down on his Navy jet in North Vietnam. He says that that day and the five and a half years he spent in captivity and being tortured taught him to depend on himself and stick to his own guns.

Reports say that Sarah Palin is another obstacle for the Republican Party. They say that she doesn't have enough experience but McCain claimed that she has a lot of executive experience as opposed to Obama, Biden, and McCain himself who have spent the majority of their careers in a legislative position. McCain reacted sharply to Brokaw when he said that McCain is defending her too much. McCain says that he isn't defending her, but praising her; she doesn't need any defense.

I think that Bush has definitely failed in more than just a few areas. The country is in a recession, we owe trillions of dollars to foreign countries who hate us, people are losing their jobs, people aren't getting enough health benefits, the war in Iraq is going nowhere, and hundreds of soldiers are dying everyday. I can see why the majority of the states are voting against the Republican Party because we all want to see change. McCain says he's not like Bush, yet he agreed with over 90% of his policies. I agree that Palin is an obstacle because not many people like her and she really doesn't seem like she knows what she's doing. She really doesn't have any experience or any skills to run a country. In my eyes, experience has nothing to do with success because Bush had a lot of experience and look where that got us. Right now, all we can do is hope for the best once election day comes and that the recession will end in the next year or so.