Editorial type thing---DRAFT

I still need to do further research to make sure everything is accurate. This is just a rough opinionated draft.... I will come back to it and had references... -S.



It’s 2008 and it’s one of the most important years in U.S. history and we are all in the middle of it.

As a student body, we have the most powerful tool that people in most other countries long for; the power to vote.

At probably one of the most crucial times in U.S. History, this country is need for a new president who will have to work twice as hard with the help of the government to turn this country around.

Since 2000, President George W. Bush has done nothing but deface the name of America across the country has war hungry-oil guzzling country.

It’s time for a change. Whether it be Senators Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, or John McCain (okay, maybe not McCain).

This country which had a surplus of money when President Clinton left office is not in trillions of dollars in debt. It’s despicable to have the most powerful country in the war, a country considered to be a leader on most fronts-is being torn down by this administration and for what?

When the tragic events of September 11th occurred, the country bonded together like never before. We rallied together to help though who were hurt, killed and effected by attacks by Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

As a country, we all agreed that we needed to go into Afghanistan and take down Osama bin Laden, but then we got derailed. We somehow ended up in Iraq. A country where we neutral with at the moment.

But there were “weapons of mass destruction” former secretary of defense Donald Rumesfeld repeated over and over and over again.

But there were none. So why did we stay there? Oh, now Saddam Hussein was a threat. Of course, Hussein was an evil man, but he was of no threat to the United States. There was no need to invade a country that had been of no use to the fight against terrorism.

Now, more than 3,000 of our troops have died for this unjust war. A war of no reason, no justice, no conclusion. This is a war of oil, which consequently is making the price of gas all over the world rise to incredible never-before-seen prices.

If anyone where to ask the President of the United States why this country is in Iraq, what would he say? He would probably say that it’s to help spread democracy around the world. Which we all know is a bunch of crap.

First it was for weapons of mass destruction.

Then it was to take down Saddam Hussein.

Then it was to create a democratic society.

Well, which is it?

The Bush administration has done nothing but disgrace this country for the past 8 years.

He has wasted money that could have funded social security (an issue he was “passionate” about during the 2004 election) for the next 80 years. Giving enough time to find a way to help social security last longer.

It’s 2008, and most of this country thinks that kids 13-26 are the dumb-generation. A generation overtaken by technology.

We need to all come together and vote for the next president who will do the job right. Someone who will unify this country with other unlike how we have been divided by our neo-conservative jackass.

On Election Day 2008, we need to put all our differences aside and vote. Don’t say that politics are stupid, or they don’t matter, because it does matter.

Politics is part of everything you do. It’s part of your life, so why not make the best of it? Why not have a say in it?

Politics is part of your schooling, your tuition, your job, your taxes, gas prices, grocery prices, clothing prices, your environment.

Politics doesn’t matter, it’s not stupid, it’s important. So deal with it. Don’t act like a whiney 10 year old, and do something right for a change.

Educate yourself, look up the candidates and see if you find one with similar beliefs as yours.

It sounds corny, but we have the power to change the face of this country. Maybe the 2008 election will have a higher voter turnout than of the season finale of American Idol.

This 2008 Election will make history. We will have the first bi-racial president, or the first female president, or another Bush as president. It’s up to us to decide.

We can effect the count. So get out there, go register and vote this November!