President Obama's Protests Against Barack Obama

The 2008 presidential election was the 56th presidential election and was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barak Obama was against Republican John McCain. The parties’ candidates focused mostly on change and reform in Washington, but in the last few months of the election campaign domestic policy and the economy surfaced as the main issues after the 2008 economic crisis. Obama’s ability to ensure voters that he could handle the economic crisis at the time and voters disapproval of the outgoing president George Bush and his policies, led him to his victory against McCain. This was an election of firsts; it was the first election in which two sitting senators ran against each other, both the current president and vice president did not run, …show more content…
He was born at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone. McCain graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1958 and flight school in 1960. He volunteered as a naval aviator in the Vietnam War, flying carrier-based attack planes on bombing runs against the North Vietnamese. While on a bombing mission over Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnamese, McCain’s aircraft was shot down. He was seriously injured and placed in Hoa Loa prison. McCain spent 5 years in numerous prison camps, three of which were spent in solitary confinement being tortured before he was released in 1973. Due to his injuries preventing him from being able to advance any further in the Navy, McCain retired in 1981. He was first elected to political office on November 2, 1982, when he won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives by using his greatly known war record. After serving two terms, McCain won the election of the U.S. Senate and became the Senator of Arizona. He has a reputation as a “maverick” meaning he is loyal to conservative principles but has the willingness to disagree with their party on individual issues. From 1987 to 1989, McCain was amongst a group of senators known as the “Keating Five,” that were accused of inappropriately intervening with federal regulators on the issues of Charles H. Keating Jr. McCain entered the 2008 presidential race on April 25, 2007 with his …show more content…
Throughout the speech announcing his candidacy for president, after every issue McCain proclaimed, “That is not good enough for America. And when I’m President, it won’t be good for me” (McCain), trying to imprint the fact that he knows what is wrong and will do everything in his power to fix it into the voters. At the end of his speech, McCain expressed: “I'm running for President to protect our country from harm and defeat its enemies. I'm running for President to make the government does its job, not your job, to do it with less and to do it better. I'm not running to leave our biggest problems to an unluckier generation of leaders, but to fix them now, and fix them well ” (McCain). If McCain had won he planned to strengthen the military and law enforcement to win the war against terrorists. He wanted to permanently balance the federal budget by stopping the government from spending money on things it shouldn’t and stabilize and grow the economy. He also wanted to save Medicare and social security, make tax code fairer and more “pro-growth” and cut down on our nations dependence on foreign