John McCain is a Better Presidential Candidate than Barack Obama

John McCain would be a better president than Barack Obama for three very important reasons.  He has more experience, a proven track record of integrity, and he is a leader that the world will take seriously.  In these uncertain times facing our nation today; we cannot afford to take a chance on an unproven, untested, and disingenuous rookie politician.

First and most importantly, McCain has an overwhelming amount of experience.  Excluding his Military service McCain has been a part of the federal government since 1983, the year Obama Graduated from Columbia University’s undergraduate program.  Comparatively, Obama has only twelve years of experience in politics, and only four years of that at the federal level!  Despite the tragic pattern of the majority of politicians, the longer they are in office the more corrupt they become, McCain has shown remarkable integrity by turning down lobbyists and special interest groups in his fight against wasteful spending.

McCain’s Integrity shows through in his history of votes in both the house and the senate.  He has frequently gone against his own party’s official policies in order to do what he believed was right rather than doing what was popular at the time.  McCain’s integrity is also supported by his vehement opposition to wasteful government spending, he promises to veto any bill with “pork-barrel spending” attached to it.  Despite his superficial idealism, Obama’s record in the Illinois senate shows the beginning of a disturbing pattern of using his position as a politician to do favors In return for kickbacks from big business owners.  One particular case involving support for a tourism grant to a company owned by Robert Blackwell Jr. who has to date Raised more than $200,000 for the Obama Campaign in return for the large grant of tax payer money.  Obama’s questionable past and his demonstration that he is willing to go against his promises*, makes him an unreliable person to be dealing with foreign nations who will not be able to trust him.

(*referring to his promise to accept public money to fund his campaign for the White House, which he had agreed to do if McCain did, but when it turned out he could get more money from private donors, he reneged, but McCain followed through on his promise leaving him with significantly less money.)

On an International level, McCain has real clout.  Being a sort of “elder statesman” McCain’s long track record of integrity is what earns him international respect.  His words would be heard, respected, and believed by the international community if for no other reason than his reputation as a man of character and principle.  Obama on the other hand, despite his elegant speaking skills, would be, perhaps literally, laughed at.  He speaks as a voice of experience and power, and yet he has no history or content to back up what he says.  He has become both a media darling, and a pseudo-savior at the same time, making him outrageously popular, but also making him extremely dangerous.  Some of the worst leaders in history (Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin) got their start in the same fervent atmosphere, so great care must be taken to ensure that Obama is not able to simply leverage his media firestorm into a presidential victory, he must stick to the issues and put more effort into educating his “followers” rather than blindly mobilizing them.

In Closing, I conclude that after much intensive and dispassionate study of both candidates’ backgrounds, policies, and characters, that John McCain is a better candidate for President of the United States.  His experience and background of integrity and patriotism are a strong foundation on which his sound, historically proven, economic and spending reform policies are built on.  His intentions are clearly worded and no effort is wasted in flowery, deceptive language.  Although he is clearly the more qualified candidate, I fear that many voters have “drank the Obama kool-aid”, and not taken the same care in making their decision.  My only hope is that America will make the right choice, it could be the popular choice, but it is usually not.