Obama accuses McCain of looking for distractions

Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama confronted John McCain for using "Swift boat-style attacks" instead of running a compaign that addresses the country's problems. "Sen. McCain and his operatives are gambling that they can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance. They'd rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up," Said Obama. Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate made the comment that associated with "terrorists who targeted our own country."

As the election time nears, mudslinging will more than likely become more prominate, to tear apart their competition, and make themselves appear to look better. People should care more about the views the canidates have instead of the gossip. One thing voters should focus on is Obama's health care plan. He hope to create a nationwide healthcare plan for people who do have have insurance provided by employers, and all children.

McCain doesnt agree with the nationwide healthcare plan because he thinks that competition would improve the quality of health insurance, which is different from Obama's plan. Obama feels that a nationwide healthcare plan would be benificial for everyone.

Personally, i agree with Obama when it comes to this nationwide healthcare plan, i think if people are garentteed healthcare for children, and if they are working it will encourage people to work, and potentially help everyone in the US. But aside from that i think Obama has new views on issues, and he is different from the typical politician. He allows different views and fresh ideas to enter our government. I think that the "mud slinging" is just going to increase as we near the election, but i wish the canidates would focus on what they are planning to do for our country instead of what the others canidates have done, that they dont agree with. Digging for trash, to change others views of the other canidate, just to tear the other canidate down, is effective, but it doesn't contribute valuable information that we should consider about electing our future president in the next few months.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/05/campaign.wrap/index.html