I am writing this because I am more frustrated than ever about the empty rhetoric, outright lying, omissions, mistruths, twists, half-truths, and senselessness during this presidential election. There is reality and then there is spin and unfortunately the latter is succeeding in framing the way we are looking at the candidates. I hope this article gives voters a reliable guide to compare and contrast the two presidential candidates
In order to protect the validity of this data and to avoid falling into a partisan slant one way or the other I am only using primary sources to research and share information. I hope this guide serves to inform voters about candidates and their plans for America and that it will erode the fallacies surrounding both men’s existence and build up knowledge about the plans each are saying will get our Country on track.
We cannot believe that either man purposely has ill will or motives that would purposely destroy the country. It does not make sense that anyone would run such a massive, expensive, time-consuming, self-deprecating campaign motivated to get elected into office and undo American progress. So both candidates will enjoy the benefit, at least for the purpose of this article, in the assumption that their plans are based on concern for the country, and offer the best the individual can offer. Each man has strong moral characters and very little in the way of dirty or immoral backgrounds which is refreshing.
Candidates Personal Attributes and Background
President Barrack Obama
Barrack Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. His mother Stanley Anne Dunham and Barrack Hussein Obama Sr. met while both were attending college in Hawaii. Barrack’s mother grew up in Kansas and his father, Kenya. Critics have gotten leverage out of insisting Barrack Jr. was born in Kenya despite a birth certificate from Hawaii. His own extended family living in Kenya is not making it any easier either. They are so proud to have a famous American relative who in turn is making them famous that they play up his African connection.
Barrack Sr. left Stanley, divorced her, and moved back to Kenya. Later she met and married an Indonesian man who was also a Muslim, Lolo Soetoro. Barrack was still young and under his mother’s care so they move to Indonesia where “Barry” takes his stepfathers name. During that time religion is not a particularly crucial part of his existence but he is in fact in a Muslim household and probably to some degree participating in Muslim worship although not of his own accord. Later when Barry moves as a preteen to Hawaii to live with his grandparents, mother Stanley’s parents, he goes to church and by the time he leaves Hawaii has chosen and is beginning to explore Christianity during his years at Punahou and college at Occidental. Although it is really later in Chicago after his time at Columbia University that he finally chooses a church community of his own. Further, since Barrack Jr. only visited Africa once after he and his father exchanged letters for over six months about a visit, it would never come. At least not in the way Barrack Jr. had dreamed it. His fathe
