Politics

Yes, the dreaded topic. The fight of the millenium. Who's better? Mccain or Obama? Palin or Biden? The list goes on and on. I have just had a lengthy conversation with a friend who would have voted for Obama. He argued his point very well about why democrats are better than republicans, but I also did. Hopefully this will be the longest post i've ever made, not counting the chapters of my story. I say that the republicans are better because the democrats supported slavery in the mid-1800s. He says that not all democrats did. He says that at one time the Democrats and republicans were merged. After James Monroe was president though, the democratic-republicans disbanded, the democrats relying on jeffersonian beleifs. The democrats had the whig party merge with theirs, creating an even bigger democratic party. After the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed, anti-slavery democrats left the democrat party, merged with weakening parties, and created the republicans. At one time the African-Americans favored the republicans because they were anti-slavery, but began liking the democrats because of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs. These programs gave economic relief to all people, even African-Americans. The early Civil Rights Movement by Lydon B. Johnson gave even more support to the Democrats from African-Americans. This position alienated the Southern white population, and split the parties. Most liberals going to the democratic, and the so called "Dixiecrats" and conservatives going to the republicans. He also says that the democrats were put through alot of labor, but most of that labor was for them getting a long line of presidents in the past century. Most people who vote for obama also vote because they believe the Keating-5 scandall. But Mccain stood up and said he was sorry to anyone who thought what he did was a scandall. Also, there were 4 democrats with him at that bank. These are the things we argued over. This was one of the hardest arguments I've ever been in, and I cant wait to participate in another, because I like a challenge.