Meghan Harmening | Blogger

Here you have it, folks. In less than a week, America will have its questions answered. Which presidential candidate will prevail? If you haven’t already voted for the candidate of your choice, here are a few more things to think about when you step into the voting booth.

First, as hard as it is to hear, social issues matter the least when making a decision on November 6th. It’s not that I’m particularly against abortion, gay marriage, guns, and social and economic equality, but it’s important to know how extremely difficult it would be for one president to change much regarding these social issues. Mitt Romney won’t be able to overturn Roe v. Wade. Mitt Romney won’t be able to ban gay marriage in every state, Barack Obama won’t be able to ban guns, and no matter how hard either presidential candidate tries, social and economic equality just won’t happen.

Second, the largest issue on everyone’s mind is the economy. We can all debate for hours about Obama coming into hard times, but what president hasn’t? Nine months after coming into office, George W. Bush was faced with the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Franklin D. Roosevelt came in 3 years after the Great Depression was in full swing. Both presidents lived to tell the tale, and both provided a sense of calm among the people. Both provided better times after the crises. President Obama did what he could, but during the campaign he now speaks of what he will do in the next four years. Well, my question is, why didn’t he do some of those things in his first four years? He passed a socialized healthcare plan in his first four years, as well as pulled our troops out of Iraq. What else occupied all of your time in between? Now President Obama wants another four years to keep things as stagnant as they were when he first came into office.

I will agree that after President Bush we needed a change in leadership. However, President Obama did not provide the change we truly needed. Now, we as Americans need to elect a president who will truly save the dwindling middle class. We need a president who will use the energy resources we have here at home in order to create jobs rather than a president who is so focused on developing only new energies that he forgets about the current state of the economy. We cannot afford to keep borrowing and spending and forgetting about the resources we already have. In these hard economic times we need to be smart and build up the jobs we have easy access to. Once the economy is in a better spot then, yes, I agree we should build up green energies. However, there are other things we need to be focusing on right now. President Obama just doesn’t have the right focus. Mitt Romney does. Vote for a new change that will better America for a long and prosperous future.

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