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Posted by mcdamas in June 7th, 2008

Two candidates have been confirmed to take the contest for presidency after Barack Obama confidently secured the ticket from Hillary R. Clinton ending the longest most expensive and spellbinding nominating epic in the Democratic party’s president nomination campaign. John McCain from the Republican, on the other side, has already been there since some months ago standing in line to dwell the White house. A change is now waiting before the US citizens’ eyes. Will Americans be wise and sensitive in voting the right man in the right place on this coming November 4 election?

Both Barack Obama and John McCain who campaign as bipartisan reformers yet are polar opposites from ideology and biography to appearance and experience.

Barack Obama, the lanky son of a Kenyan father and a Kansan mother, used to be reared in Indonesia and Hawaii and the first black presidential nominee of a major US party is liberal and Charismatic. He is committed to oppose Bush’s tax cuts on investment, free-trade agreement, drilling in the Arctic wildlife refuge, extension of federal wiretap provisions, privatization of social security, Iraq war and from the start has made his call for a pullout. He also opposes the confirmation of Bush’s two Supreme Courts..

John McCain, on the other hand, a veteran Republican senator from Arizona, is conservative and orthodoxy. He vows never surrender to al-Qaeda and will always support the troop-increase strategy in Iraq and opposes a quick pullout and favors together sanctions against Iran. He also backs free-trade and the extension of the Bush tax cuts, opposes abortion right, favors school choice, is along time advocate of fiscal restraint and crusader against wasteful government spending and takes a free-market approach to health care.

McCain, 71, the old crack white man who has been the for four-term senator and along time Republican party’s agitator would be the oldest first-term president ever elected. On the other hand, Obama, 46, black and a senate newcomer of Illinois having been there for just 3.5 years and the Democratic party’s newfound star, would be the first minority to achieve the White House. His momentous victory five months since his shock win over Clinton in the very first nominating contest in Iowa has set up an intriguing general election class with McCain.

It takes 270 electoral votes to win the White House and competition between Obama and McCain will be fierce in some 14 battle-ground states. The two will fight to defend states their parties won four years ago.

No matter who will win to succeed Bush, the insane president ever, will surely bring great impact on the coming world order. The Americans must realize that public all over the world expect the best that can bring a CHANGE they can BELIEVE IN. They must be aware that history is in the making.

So, who the Americans will vote; John McCain who is pro war and blind-eyed invasion or Barack Obama who is pro peace and better life?

Of course, it would be too much to ask that Obama, if elected as president, quickly ends the war in Iraq given the geopolitical implications. But the prospect of seeing an African-American in the White House is more than enough to assure the world that America is ready to lead the world in a different way.