Election '08

Like everyone else out there, I've been thinking a lot about the election.

The way I see it, I fall one of two ways on most issues. On many, I am definitely for Obama. These issues would include abortion, health care, and the economy. On a few, namely foreign policy, I'm in more of a bind.

Foreign policy is always a tricky issue in my mind. For one thing, there is so much intelligence that we know nothing about, that it's often hard to trust anything anyone says about how dangerous or not dangerous a particular person or country is. For another thing, I know nothing about being in an army, so for me to say that I have an opinion about when the troops should be withdrawn from Iraq would be naive. I honestly have no clue. I find a lot of what Obama says on the subject to sound quite sensible, but at the end of day he could be wrong and McCain could be right, and I wouldn't be incredibly surprised either way.

I do believe that Iran poses a huge threat, however, but that doesn't make my decision on that aspect any easier. How does one deal with such a huge threat? The rest of my family equates this situation with WWII, Ahmenidijad with Hitler, and any sort of diplomacy with the appeasement that allowed Hitler to get as far as he did in his plans.

I see this as sort of a "fear mentality," and while I think it is certainly a justified fear, I just don't think that I can let that sort of thing dictate my vote when the issues I AM certain about point me very clearly at Obama.