Barack Obama vs John McCainI am blogging two days before the US Election goes into swing and the expected winner of the election is the Barack Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama II ( born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presidential nominee of the Republican Party.
The election has brought out many issues and topics of general conversation such as the former canditate Hilary Clinton. 'Would she become President twice?' was one of the gossip topics insinuating that when her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was president she had control of him and the country. For the time that Hilary, as she was known in the press, was in the running with Obama, McCain didn't actually seem to be in the picture as the press wasn't covering him and I hadn't herd of him. The gossip and media issues surrounding the election then was that America must choose between a black man and a woman, which blossomed a racist and sexist negative opinion that there's no good choice of president, so choose between a black man and a woman, neither of which have been president of the USA before in history.
Interestingly now, as Obama seems the most likely candidate to win, winning the voting statistics and majority of states, suggests that a country of many communities and backgrounds, many of whom contain racist beliefs, has changed overall views for there was a time in America when a black man wouldn't of stould a chance in US politics and now the obvious candidate, in comparison with previous presidents, McCain, seems as if he will lose and all steriotypes of the president of the US have been declined.
Also, impacting a dent in the recent media is McCain's choice of vice-president, Sarah Palin, who has been heavily subjected to the media because of the fact that she is so original in politics, as many male politicians would comment, she's the first good looking female politician and her famous wink has encouraged that judgemental attitude. She was recently the victim of a prank phone call by someone pretending to be the French president. The fact that I couldn't even name Obama's choice of vice-president highlights the fact that they haven't been in the media at all compaired with Palin and therefore strengthening the reality of Palin's media attention. Also if you search the BBC website, which I have just done, there are links to McCain, Obama and Palin and not Joe Biden (Obama's vice-president).
jL
