The News Is Next--An Educated Political Viewpoint?

Editorial Article Written by Matthew Olson on 10/8/08 at 23:45

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I've heard this expression a lot lately, and to an extent it bothers me. The term "educated political viewpoint" is a very loose term that essentially says you're making an educated guess at who's going to be better, right? Wrong, at least according to the democratic party lately. This stems from experience and, ironically, education! According to some members of the College Democrats club here at USF, an "educated political viewpoint" is the one that (a) gets us as far away from anything near George Bush's ideas and (b) invites the candidate who wants to change the most in our government. This is a horrible idea for a few reasons, as I've noticed. Changing most things in government would be a bad thing, but I also have to correct people on a lot of their arguments I've heard made lately.

Firstly, lets talk economics. I'm far from an expert on economics, something that John McCain and I have in common. However, I do know that the president of the United States does not control the economy, at least mostly does not control it. On the contrary, it is a lot of third-party business and CONGRESS! These bailouts are not to do with Bush at all, they are to do with Congress passing the bail-out approvals for Frannie, Freddie, AIG, etc. Thus far, if I remember the number there has been $70 million spent on bailing these big sub-prime mortgage lenders out of debt because they gave out mortgages to too many people who knowingly couldn't afford these high costs. This is not the fault of the Bush Administration, actually it was the fault of the Democratic party for pushing for this to go through because of the philosophy that everyone should be able to afford a home. This to me sounds like a socialist point of view, but alas it got passed and now, well, we're in trouble.

Second, changing everything is not going to help anything. Our government does not control the price of Oil. Taxes on oil aren't as high as they used to be... and the only thing our government controls as far as oil is concerned is tax and where we can drill domestically. John McCain is pushing for domestic drilling (along with Sarah Palin) and has been for a while now. Why hasn't it happened? Environmentalists (who are normally very liberal in themselves) claim it will harm the environment too much to be worth it. But looking at the oil rigs now in the Gulf, really nothing bad has happened out there that is near considered an environmental disaster. On the contrary, they become artificial habitats for marine life to inhabit.

I have a very educated viewpoint to choose who I want leading my country after Bush is out of office. I want someone who's going to actually do a good job rather than just changing everything. I want someone who's going to solve problems rather than just cover them up with more governmental control and taxes. I want someone who's going to be a true leader rather than someone who's just going for approval ratings and points. I want someone who's a veteran leading me in a time of war. In short, that means I want John McCain. To me, that sounds like a very educated opinion. It is only an opinion, but politics is really all about opinions and approval. Popularity is a good word to use here. Approval works too.

If politics is only about approval then, I approve highly of John McCain. Better yet, I disapprove greatly of Barak Obama. And that is coming from an EDUCATED view.

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