For this blog I looked on the Houston Chronicle's web site and found an article about how the presidential candidates and their vice precedents have made some shaky claims and the author shows how the comments could be misleading and nonfactual.
This is a very interesting article because it shows how the candidates can say tiny little things that the public takes as truth and that if we knew more we would be able to see through the arguments. This also somewhat shows the bad part of politics, saying what ever you have to say to get elected. That can be a pretty disheartening fact, yet we can not expect these men (and woman) to be completely perfect no matter how hard we want them to be.
The author gives some logos to back his statements to show the falsehood of the comments. It is good that there are people out there who find the facts about these things because the normal citizen needs to be informed but often does not have the resources and time to find the complete truth.
here is the story if you are interested in reading it
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/5989032.html
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Being in your group I'm glad you picked something interesting...your article was really neat to read, and I thought it was very unique in the fact that the author found mistakes from both Obama and McCain's sides, instead of focusing on the faults of just one of them like most people would!
It's true you cannot expect a candidate to be perfect, but you can expect them to be honest. They're going to make promises they can't keep, and do whatever it takes to get your vote. Besides they need congress and the senate to be truly effective.
I think that's really weird too about saying whatever they feel like to get people to vote for them. That really bothers me. I dont see why they can just tell the truth and not be so wishy washy.
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