Who's Best?

Well that's simple, Chuck Norris. He'll solve all our problems and have time to make pie afterwards.

Thankfully, this question has likely been answered, or at least the information has been brought to my attention, by my incredibly intellectual friend Victoria, who will likely end up having to rewrite almost everything I put in here.

The question generally falls to three people that seem "qualified" to me. Being, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain. The problems with each are:

Hillary has a bad rap, for what I generally see to be useless reasons. Her marriage has little if anything to do with the state of the nation. If Bill cheats on her, that's between them, it doesn't involve the American people. Bill did involve the American people only by lying about it publicly. This is why he was impeached - and I've noticed that a lot of people have the wrong idea about that word and process - impeachment is not removal from office, it's more like a complaint or indictment brought against a public official. Bill Clinton was impeached, and it was dropped when he told the truth. If the President is impeached, he is tried by the House of Representatives, moderated by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Anyhow, back to Hillary - many don't like one simple fact of her anatomy, she's a girl, they say, and people can talk about equal rights all they want, the fact is, most people make prejudgments about the kind of person she is because she's a woman holding office, same went for Nancy Pelosi, Janet Reno, Eva Peron, etc. No matter their qualifications, a male dominated society continually looks upon women in power poorly. Hillary has sort of become the Wicked Witch of the East as far as most politics have gone - books have already been released that attack her character, call her soulless, etc. Believe what you'd like about her personality, her voting record is that of a centrist, which is typically how America votes for President. I can promise that if all of them seem wacked out to you now, take a good look in April and May next year. Seem different? I'll talk about that later. . . Hillary also shows many characteristics of a Repbulican in matters of national security and foreign politics.

Barack Obama is the idealistic dream of the Presidency. He's young, new to Washington, and captivating. I was very impressed with him this week, when he spoke to people in the auto industry in Michigan, saying that we needed to do something about fuel efficiency in the United States. He then proposed a solution bringing all vehicles up to 45/mpg by 2022 in a gradual, systematic upgrade. I'm not going to go into the effectiveness of the plan, but I can say that this in not typical. He had a plan, possibly a workable plan. He didn't spend time accusing them of getting rich off oil, he was just saying "here's my way to fix it." Imagine that, a President who fixes things - I believe the last one we had got shot in the head. . . Here's the conflict for me. I believe that the founders of the Constitution intended for the common man to serve in government - back then it was a burden, not a career to serve in office. I think Obama is closer to this intent than the other candidates(and by this, I am not saying something about his intelligence, he certainly is well educated and intelligent) - unfortunately, this is not how Washington works today. I find him intelligent enough, and I believe with the right amount of experience and wisdom in his Administration, Obama would be my favorite pick for President. Maybe it's because I'm a young idealist, but that's who I like the best. Maybe it will be better running for him in 2016, when he has the right friends, the problem is, he'd have to make sacrifices to get there, and I'm afraid his idealism will be one of the first things to go.

John McCain is well known, and generally well liked from what I understand pissed a lot of people in the Republican party (which is his own) and that's what attracts me to him.