John McCain will make a better president than Barack Obama

Points=== 1. Obama will talk to leaders of other nations. If we talk to Al Qaida maybe we can find some common ground and stop living in fear. If we talk to Cuba we can open up trade, help millions and more. Cuba's embargo has been in place for years. Nothing has changed. If we finally talk to these leaders, at this critical time in Cuba's history, then something may change. Giving the cold shoulder is always ineffective. Imagine if Kennedy would have given Cuba the cold shoulder when they had a nuke aimed at us, many Americans would have died. 2. Obama's health care plan is great. It is not like the failing single payer systems of Sweden and Canada. It gives people health insurance that will compete for lower prices and lower prices. It will be forced to take high risk clients so nobody will die under these systems due to lack of coverage. McCain only gives tax breaks, which is nice, but he will not force companies to take all patients, he will not have paperwork simplified, which will help uninformed patients, McCain's plan will not force easy access, under McCain's plan people who get laid off are just screwed; Obama will make it so all children are covered, unlike McCain who lets children die. Obama's plan is superior and allows everybody to choose their own private plan if they wish. Obama saves lives and eases costs, while McCain lets people die and pay for it. 3. McCain will appoint judges who oppose gay marriage and abortion, which hinders personal freedom and is unconstitution and evil. (14th Amendment, Right to Life) 4. Obama will help pay for students to go to college if they help out their country, which is good for families and students and the government in the future. 5. Obama will pull us out of Iraq, which will save lives and money. 6. Obama is inspirational for all especially young people. McCain does not. Rebuttals === Most of his points were turned in favor of Barack Obama 1. Experience A. You do not need experience to have good judgment. This is an untrue assumption, that is not backed up by sources, as his rules state. Bush has much experience in government and has learned from his father during his presidency. Bush started gaining experience as Texas governor in 1994 and continued until 2000 when he became president the following year and after the first term, he still has bad judgment. (http://www.votesmart.org...) He is a person with much experience, but opposes a bipartisan effort to stop oil reserve filling among other bad judgment decisions. B. John McCain may be older, but this does not mean that he has more experiences than Barack Obama. Obama has led a life that has seen all social classes and has had many experiences. He went to public school with a single mother in a poor neighborhood in Jakarta. (http://en.wikipedia.org...) John McCain went to a private school and had both his parents while a child. (http://en.wikipedia.org...) Barack Obama simply has a better scope on life, which is the purpose of experience. He has learned a lot from his experience. Now, both the senators are very wealthy. While Kohn McCain has only experienced a one lifestyle, Barack Obama has been poor, middle class and wealthy. There is no experience that you can point out that gives McCain an advantage over Obama. And if you can, it does not outweigh Obama's good judgment. C. Obama will have many advisors who can instruct him and influence his decisions. Obama also has great judgment. Obama opposed the Iraq War at the beginning of the war. Obama understands that the Iraq War is hurting our military. John McCain wants to continue this war. A war that you are against according to your profile. D. You say that McCain has leadership experience, but this is untrue. Neither senators have been in government leadership positions. This is an invalid and untrue assumption. Obama has enough legislative experience. He has been legislating in the Illinois senate and in the Congress. However, the president will not necessarily need legislating experience. He will be president not a legislator. 2) Judgment A. You talk about Obama's judgment and you justify your claim of his bad judgment with gotchas like Jeremiah Wright and his flag pin. These gotcha issues do not hinder or qualify a person's ability to be president. McCain has his gotcha issues too. He wrote a letter to the FCC when he was 'very close with' an FCC lobbyist. McCain supports staying in Iraq, which displays bad judgment. B. Obama's response to the telephone ad response was not what you said it was. You do not understand the ad. And your source only shows the 2 commercials. It does not have any substantial analysis of them except random bbloggers comments who go both ways. Obama's judgment in responding to this ad was good. He showed how he would handle a disaster if the phone rang at 3am and why Clinton was not as equipped to. It would be stupid to show that he was merely capable of picking up the phone. Nobody doubts his ability to do that. The ad is about his judgment. C. Your claim that Illinois legislation does not matter is false and unbacked like your rules suggest it should be. He increased tax credits for low-income workers, promoted increased subsidies for childcare, supported Republican Governor Ryan's payday loan regulations and predatory mortgage lending regulations aimed at averting home foreclosures, helped with ethics reform and much more. D. His opposition to the war shows he is not war hungry unlike his predecessor or opponent. If somebody nuclear biombed us he might not strike back immediately. Or if somebody attacked us he might develop a strategy before attacking back, if attacking back at all. E. Obama did not oppose the war. He opposed rushing into war and giving Bush the benefit of the doubt. F. Iraq is already in sectarian violence. America is increasing the violence and has killed over 100,000 people. The war does not help the Iraqis. Your profile agrees. G. The surge is not working and you have no proof that it is. The effort was to stop terrorism and hurt Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda has no link to Iraq (http://www.msnbc.msn.com...) and definitely not more than Afghanistan, which needs our troops. He wanted to give them a more stable government. This has not happened either. H. And the longer the war goes on the worse our international relationships are. And more people die for this false war. Also the economic consequences are severe. I. The war is also killing Iraqis in droves, the exact opposite of the purpose of the war. 3) Policies. A. Obama supports amending NAFTA not abolishing it. He wants to change it to be better and work better for Americans. B. McCain's promise of no jobs was a bad move. Politicially and logically. Romney made gains on him after that claim. And these workers can get new jobs. C. Obama will reinstate PAYGO rules which state that if you want to start a new thing that will cost money you have to raise taxes or cut something else instead of just creating new spending. D. Obama will reverse the Bush Tax Cuts, which obviously are not working. Bush had two recessions in his time or almost recessions, whichever you wanna call it. These tax cuts obviously did not work. E. Obama will ensure that federal contracts over $25,000 are competitively bid. (barackobama.com) 4) My opponent dislikes Obama's foreign policy stance. However, this point alone should give me the debate. Talking to our enemies will work. Imagine if Kennedy never spoke to Castro in the Cuba Missile Crisis, we would have been nuclear bombed. However, Kennedy talked with one of our enemies and the way he handled the Cuban Missile Crisis saved many American lives. McCain's strategy of being tough with our enemies and never talking never works. We won't talk to Hamas, Al Qaida, Cuba, etc. But when Bush talked to North Korea, they started disarming their nuclear missiles. This diplomacy works.