President Bush: All-American

Audience: Readers of the paper who are voting for the ‘04 Presidential Election
Course Title: American Government and Politics
The upcoming election will have an enormous impact on our society and the way our government operates. The election, held next fall, will have current President George W. Bush as the main republican candidate. In order for President Bush to win another term as President I feel that there are a few topics that he needs to address. As President you are faced with many decisions and the consequences for those decisions. I feel that at this point in time there are many advantages and disadvantages for President Bush. The current advantages for Bush are; our safety from terrorism, his health care plan, and his education plan. These platform topics give Bush a strong advantage over his competition. Bush does have some disadvantages at this time. I would say the two major disadvantages at this time are the war in Iraq and the state of our economy.

The President does have some topics that may cause him a problem during the election. Currently, the two main topics of concern that I see for the President are, the War in Iraq and the economic state of America. I do not think that either of topics is a problem for myself or other Americans. I am very happy about the current situation in the Middle-East and I am very understanding about the economic situation. However, for some Americans they see these two topics as a real point of concern in the upcoming election. I think there are a few reasons why people believe these topics to be such a problem.

George W Bush. 03 Oct. 2003. Bush-Cheney 2004. 03 Oct. 2003.

First of all, the war in Iraq seems to be causing a major uproar among some people. Judging by the class debates on Tuesday, I would say about 40% of our population has a problem with the Iraqi conflict. I think a lot of their concern comes from being uneducated. From the information I gathered during our class debates, the main reason for concern in Iraq is that no weapons of mass destruction were found. None of the democrats in our class said that there were other reasons for going to Iraq. There only point was that there were no weapons found. I would have to say that anyone believing that the U.S. went to Iraq on the basis of weapons is extremely naive. We went to Iraq because of oil, Saddam’s grudge with the Bush family, and mainly because of money. Based on the class discussion no one said whether or not the reasons afore mentioned were legitimate in going to Iraq, again their only defense was, “No Weapons!”. I think it would be interesting to see if the people so upset about the war because we found “No Weapons” would support the war for the real reasons. I think that all Bush needs to do to overcome this obstacle is to spell out the real reasons for the American people. As unfortunate as it is to say, this topic makes it very easy to see that people believe everything they hear on television. A quick look at the real facts and these people would see that weapons of mass destruction was not the reason we went to war. That is why the President needs to address the real reasons for the citizens of this country, in order to get them back on his side in this issue. It makes it real hard for someone to argue with, “I did it for my dad.” or better yet, “Hey, I did it for your safety, prosperity, and so that you can affordably drive your car to work!”.