John McCain

John McCain was born on August 29th, 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone. He graduated in 1958 from the US Naval Academy. After jioning the Navy he served for about 20 years. For five of those years he was as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and in 1999 he writes a book called Faith of My Fathers which explains some of the troubles he faced during that time. After leaving the Navy in 1941, he became involved with Congress and was elected. In the year 1986 he became the Senator of Arizona which he still is to this day. Currently he lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife Cindy and his seven children. This year he ran for President of the United States with vice presidentail candidate Sarah Palin. While working together McCain and Palin have promised to bring significant change to America and its citizen. They plan on doing this by reforming Washington, cutting taxes, and improving the economy.

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin was born on February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, Idaho to the parents of Charles and Sally Heath. SHh graduated from the University of Idaho in 1987 and afterwards became a sports reporter. In 1992 she became the mayor of Wisilla, Alaska. During her time as mayor she did various things such as decreased spending and increased city taxes. Later in her life Sarah Palin became the chairman of the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. In 2006 she was elected governer of Alaska and still has that possition. This year she ran for the Republic campaign as John McCains running mate, in hopes of becoming a vice president. Right now she happily lives in Wasilla , Alaska with her husband Todd and her five children.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. As a child he was raised by his single mother after his parents divorced. During his teens years Obam struggled with drugs and alchohol as a result of the difficult events that occured in his life. In 1983 Obama graduated from Columbia University and in 1996 he ran for Illionios State Senate. This year Obama ran for president as a democratic candidate with his running mate Joe Biden. He plans on bringing change to America through his campaign which represents faith and hope for the American people. Currently Obama lives in Kenwood, Chicago with his wife Michelle and two duaghters.

Joe Biden

Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania to the parents of Joseph and Catherine Biden. When Biden became twenty nine years old he became part of the Senate. Soon after his wife and duaghter died in a car crash. The crash resulted in his two sons to be hospitalized. Currently Biden lives in Wilmington Delaware with his new wife and one step daughter. This year Biden ran for the vice president position next to his running mate Barack Obama. He is not shown often in the news but has been a good candidate for the election.

Candidates on the Issues

Abortion
McCain: opposes abortion except in cases such as rape, incest or threat, or death to the mother. He stated that he opposes abortion because it would cause an enormous amount of women to go into an illegeal and dangerous operation.
Obama: supports abortion laws but trusts women to make their own decisions acording to their needs.
Education
McCain: supports education stating that low-income and middle-class families should have the same educational benefits as wealthier families do. He also beleives that public and private schools should be accecible to all children no matter how much money their parents have.
Obama: supports education and plans on funding charter schools as a way to increase the competition in the school system.
Death Penalty
McCain: supports the death penalty but syas it should not be used on minors. He plans on harshening the capital punishment for other crmes.
Obama: supports capital punishment but stated that "it does little to deter crime." Although he supports capital punishment he disagrees with confessions and integrogations being filmed.
Environment
McCain: opposed drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Reserve unless it had some benefits or wouldn't cause damage to the enviroment. He opposes the ban offshore drilling because the price of oil has recently gone up.
Obama: Opposes drilling in the Wildlife Reserve but suppoorts offshore drilling because he beleives it will decrease oil prices.
Health Care
McCain: supports health care and wants to encourage families to to buy insurance.
Obama: supports health care and is determined to implement it for all American.
Immigration
McCain: opposes imagration and plans on doubleing the amount of border security in order to stop illigal imigrates from coming to America.
Obama: opposes illigal imigrant entering into the U.S and plans on using higher technology to find the illigal immigrants. He also stated he would put more security at our borders.
Iraq War
McCain: supports the war in Iraq and plans on approving Americas force there. He doea want the war to stop but not right now because it may cause greater unstablity in the future.
Obama: opposes the war saying it was a rash and dumb decision for America to enter it in the first place.
Economy
McCian: Supports plans to reform Washington D.C. by lower taxes and encouraging people to spend only what they can afford.
Obama: supports lessening America's dependancy on Foriegn countries in order to keep money within the united states.
Poverty
McCain: opposes poverty saying we should not have thousands of people not being able to afford education, food, and daily needs for their children.
Obama: opposes poverty and by lowering tax breaks he plans on making poverty inprove.
Stem Cell Research
McCain: opposes emryonic stem cell research but supports using adult stem cells. Although he apposes stem cell research he made the decision to allow left over embryonic cells to be used for research if he becomes president.
Obama: supports stem cell research agreeing with Goerge Bush's law that will allow disgarded cells to be used for research.

What is Global Warming?

Global Warming is the term used to describe the increase of the world's overall tempature, due to the rising amounts of greenhouse gasses and carbon dioxide. Scientist have determined that certain human activities cause global warming to progress quicker. Humans contribute to global warning when they burn fossil fuels in their cars, use electricity in their homes, and cut down trees, which convert carbon dioxide to oxygen. As a result of global warming, many animals become extinct, natural dissasters happen more often, and climate changes occur all around the world. It is important to know about Global warming because it is most likely going to have a major affect on people in the near future. This means that your children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on and so forth will suffer because of the things humans are doing now.

The Pros and Cons of Offshore Drilling

Offshore drilling is the proccess of getting oil from under the ocean floor. It can be both beneficial and nonbeneficail for the economy. Offshore drilling can benefit the economy by providing oil for America so that we could wouldn't have to buy it from other countries. On the other hand it is expencieve to build rigs in the ocean and takes many years. Also if no oil is found, the money used to build the rigs will be wasted. As for the enviroment, offshore drilling doesn't benefit it at all. This is because people make mistakes and accidents can cause oil spills. As a result, wildlife dies and the ocean becomes poluted.

The Pros and Cons of Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons only have negative effects on both the Economy and the Environment. This is because a country spends millions of dollars on nuclear weapons but does not gain anything in return. Also, nuclear weapons lead to massive distruction to our planet which sometimes is eriversable. For example, when the Atomic Bomb was tested off the coast of mexico a black hole was created and sucked in a major part of the earths crust. Although nuclear weapons can give a single country more power than the rest there only purpose is to cause harm. In conclusion there are no positive asspects of nuclear weapons.