"This November, I will vote for the first time. I am not ashamed to admit that the man getting my vote will be a Republican referred to as 'the anti-Christ' by my acquaintances.
My support for Sen. John McCain started off as just a silly way to rebel against Sen. Barack Obama and the idea of voting for him just because he is black. But now it is less superficial.
Since the campaign began, most of my friends and family supported Obama just because of the color of his skin — not because of his politics. Sorry to say, skin color alone did not make me an Obama aficionado.
Ironically, I began to actually start watching more political shows, reading excerpts from candidates' books online, and researching their backgrounds before deciding to be a McCain supporter. McCain intends to push for cost containment when it comes to the health care issue, a strategy that's much more plausible than Obama's hopes for universal health care.
While many people think it would be better if all Americans were covered under a national health care program, the reality is that we would be better off setting up appointments and paying more money for the help we need. If we had a national health care plan, there would be longer waits for transplants and other surgeries, and less of an opportunity for people to take care of what they need medically in a timely manner.
The idea of universal health care sounds like a great concept, but Obama fails to realize that life is not a fairy tale. If Obama were to be elected president, he would place Americans in positions of false security. Many Americans feel as if electing Obama president means that things will go back to the way they were pre-Bush, but they won't.
With McCain, things are more likely to go smoothly for America if we find a nice medium to travel along instead of disrupting everything we have become accustomed to in the last eight years.
Although Obama's policies are contradictory to Bush's, having someone as liberal as he would come off in office as soon as Bush leaves just doesn't appear to me to be a good thing. Change comes over time; therefore, alternating between an extremely conservative president and a candidate who has traditional values but is open to new ideas is exactly what we need right now in America.
Having Obama in office would only initiate a negative reaction from other countries, because he is so inexperienced. He is still very young, and although the world believes they can handle a new American leader without white skin, I don't know if I believe it.
With Bush having been a president consistently mocked for his lack of communication savvy, causing people to believe he was 'dumb' or an 'idiot,' it seems that Americans are ready to go for a smooth talker as opposed to someone who is really doing what he says he believes in." —
Angelica Brown, intern at the Detroit Free Press and a 2008 graduate of Mumford High School in Detroit. Ms. Brown has a full scholarship to attend the University of Michigan-Dearborn this autumn, where she will study film making.
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