2008 Presidential Candidate: Barack Obama, the best candidate who can win even though I don’t like him.

Party: Democrat

Abortion: Currently should be legal in the first stages of a pregnancy, illegal afterwards. I don’t have a very specific plan. It can be under states rights anyway.

Capital Punishment: Should be allowed to be performed to scare criminals but should be used incredibly rarely so innocent people aren’t punished too often with no chance of righting the wrong.

Alternative Fuels: There should be large amounts of funding used for research purposes to find alternative fuels. Unless the situation gets even incredibly a subsidy shouldn’t be used. I don’t think that will be needed.

Current Administration: Incredibly poor. In the future they will be looked upon as a bad administration especially since neo cons are getting heat for some of the bush policies.

Electoral College: should be replaced with a system that gives the popular votes in each state a small percent increase depending how small it is. That way the city won't control politics by itself and each state won't have an everything or nothing benefit in the presidential ellection.

Federal Debt: NEEDS TO BE PAID OFF! It could be eliminated in some years if the bush tax cuts are ended, increase taxes for upper middle class, the military’s budget is reduced, unemployment benefits are cut, and the money used for the Iraq War is devoted to paying off the debt after the war ends. The only program that should receive increased funding before the debt isn’t substantially reduced would be for education, protecting the boarder, and research for alternative fuels.

Taxes: Reduce taxes for corporations but increase taxes on high income earners. Wealth that people make should be taxed instead of the business. Keep the taxes on the poor and most middle classes low. I was thinking about the fair tax plan and I would support it if the reimbursement was higher and it came with a high luxury tax so the lower classes wouldn’t be hit as hard.

Flag Burning: 1st amendment

Foreign Policy: Should work to improve relations with other countries because even if the short term effects of taking advantage of weaker nations are great, in the long run they can be detrimental. Example Iran

Gay Rights: Gay couples should have exactly the same rights as heterosexual couples because since when could the government interfere in people’s private lives like that? If not than it could be decided by each state.

Global Warming: It seems factual right now and steps should be taken to invent other forms of clean energy. Besides that we can’t destroy our economy to try and solve global warming

Gun Control: Support gun control

Health care: Currently we can’t afford universal healthcare for everyone but if every child got it I would still oppose but I would be more indifferent. When the debt is paid off if people want universal healthcare I would be fine with it.

Illegal Immigration: Needs to be stopped. Build an expensive fense.

Marijuana Legalization: Sure legalize it, but have a large tax. I have never heard a good argument why marijuana should remain illegal. It will bring in more revenue while reducing crime and not filling up the prison system.

Media Bias: Media is all biased mostly to the left but someone to the right as well. It sucks and their funds should be disclosed or something like that but if too much was done that the gov would be controlling the media.

School Prayer: No required school prayer but if someone wants to pray in school or wear a religious symbol let them

Separation of Church and State: Needs to be enforced.

Stem Cell Research: Seems obsolete but since all or most of the embryos that are needed for research can be gained from discarded ones the research could continue.

The Constitution: It should be revised to allow the federal government to do anything it wants that doesn’t infringe on states rights with no new amendment.
United Nations: Good system for global diplomacy. It should be reformed but I have no idea how.

War in Iraq: We should have a timetable to put pressure on the Iraqi government to distribute oil revenues and train defensive forces. Despite that we should stay a few years longer.

Welfare: Education should be free and it should be improved by increasing teacher wages. Unemployment benefits should be cut because many people just live off of that. Children should be the only real recipients of welfare in the form of free food or cash, but I am opposed to most forms of welfare that I have seen.

Wiretapping: illegal without a warrant.