In class, we have been talking a lot about the senatorial race between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. I was assigned in the past week to help fellow students write the frontpage of a (unofficial) newspaper about the 4th debate that Lincoln and Douglas had. This debate took place in Charleston Illinois, and the area was really "negrophobic," or didn't like black people, which really matters with this debate because Lincoln was trying to bring about the end to slavery, even though he claimed the entire process to take over 100 years, and Douglas, who was really for slavery and keeping the United States segregated, claimed to be for a popular vote method, where Illinois would decide with the people whether they want to keep slavery or not.
Lincoln, who claimed to "...say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied every thing. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife." This really is almost a turning point for a lot of people in America, because a lot of those "Average Joes" out there think that Lincoln was a revolutionary who was completely for equality and was completely against slavery in its entirety. He was still a revolutionary in his own right just by saying slavery is wrong, but he still was not as high and mighty as everybody nowadays thinks he was.
This blog is
also supposed to be about this years presidential elections, and as I am a little unaware as to how to transition between the two subjects, so this will be my transition.
This presidential race has turned out to be one of the most important
races in years. With the war on terror and the financial crisis going on, it gets even bigger with the first African American running for president. My views at tthe moment on this presidential race are really open minded. I do not have a preference, being independant party, and judge candidates based solely off of what their views are.
I think that John McCain does have more experience than Obama in a lot of catagories, such as war and how politics should be ran, and how they have been running. But I also think that Obama knows a little more about the lower things in political eyes such as tax cuts for the less wealthy and better education. Each presidential candidate has good views on some things, but what they lack good views in, the other makes up for it. This is the biggest reason why I am undecided on this specific presidential election at the moment, and that is what I think of this election.
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