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Maybe it's just me, but is anyone else concerned about foreign policy that ISN'T centered around Iraq? Granted, Iraq is the issue of the campaign and a rally point for millions, but what about other nations? Quite frankly, I think Obama will have greater capacity to improve our foreign relations, and especially bring more aid (and dare I say CHANGE?) to the struggling nations of Africa. Clinton had the charisma of an ice-box in my perspective, and, sad as it is, charisma is something that has to be acknowledged as a trait of importance when it comes to politics, domestic and foreign.

I'm young. I don't proclaim to know a lot, or have a firm grasp of politics. But like it or not, my generation is going to be running to country someday, and growing up in the shadow of sex scandals, war, and corrupt leaders, we need hope. Clinton doesn't offer the kind of hope we want. There would be change, there would be progression, but we need belief in our system again. We need someone with dreamer-qualities, but with the ability to get things done.

posted 5 years ago
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