What Should Be Done: Obama’s Campaign at a Glance

It is the year 2012, an exciting time for the U.S., not because the world is going to end, though that theory in itself has caused some excitement and pandemonium. The year 2012 is particularly important to Americans because it is the fourth year of Barack Obama’s presidency, which means it is almost time for the next presidential election.

At the moment, it looks as if the Republican nominee will be Mitt Romney, which is bad news for Democrats, becasue Romney is a more competitive candidate for office than many of the other Republican candidates, such as Newt Gingrich, and thus, it will be harder for Obama to beat Romney in the election. Obama, in response to Romney’s almost guaranteed Republican nomination, is trying to win the next election using a different approach than in 2008. Fixing the economy should be a priority for Obama, because if the economy improves, so does his popularity. When things are going well, people like to keep it that way. Aside from that, he could also could run on his record, which means he can use his accomplishments in office to help with his campaign.

Obama needs to head in the direction of job creation and government spending, like Medicare and government funded charity programs and work projects. Many people don’t think government spending creates jobs, but this isn’t true. Government spending for public projects needs to increase, even if not by very much. Conservatives may disagree. Do you know where government spending goes? It goes to help build roads so more jobs are created and, more importantly for the youth, it goes to help our education, so our schools can be funded and you’re not stuck in a crowded classroom with extremely outdated textbooks and scratched up chalkboards. Now Mitt Romney has publicly endorsed the House Republican budget plan that calls for drastic cuts in student aid, so I guess if you vote for him then you must not want to go to college. Check any credible news source (that means not FOX news) and you’ll see I’m right.

As Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote in The New York Times, Romney is “a strong supporter of the Ryan budget plan, which would drastically cut federal student aid, causing roughly a million students to lose their Pell grants,” federal student aid for college students.

Who am I to argue with a Nobel Prize winner?

Giving tax cuts to millionaires isn’t the way to create jobs. We can’t just give millionares more money when we have a national debt. Reagan cut taxes and raised the debt. George W. Bush cut taxes and almost doubled the national debt during his time in office. Obama needs to start some government funded programs to get people back on their feet. This doesn’t need to be permanent, but it should at least be a starting point.

The idea of winning the election on his record, which means trying to run off of what he has accompished in office already, isn’t that far out of the ball park either. Obama has ended the war in Iraq, an accomplishment, he has helped us try to get out of the biggest recession since the 1930s and has partially succeded, another accomplishment, and he has passed a heathcare bill that has already helped many Americans. Now I know what critics will think. We have to buy healthcare? We shouldn’t have to buy health care. While we’re at it, why don’t we just make everyone buy broccoli. Sound familiar? Believe it or not, conservatives, I have some news. Whether you know it or not and whether you want to or not, you or a loved one will use or be affected by healthcare at some point in your life. It has probably already happened. It looks like Obama has a strong record to run on.

If Obama keeps focusing on the economy and runs on his record, I’m confident he will have a much better chance at re-election, instead of losing to Romney come November.

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