Obama, 10 Issues

Abortion
Barack Obama believes he should protect the womans right to choose. He says that you can find common ground between pro-life and pro-choice. He is also undecided on wether or not life begins at conecption. He trusts women to make the right decision on partial-birth abortion. To further support his beliefs he wrote an article saying that a fetus cannot sue its mother. He also voted no to notifying parents when teens get out of state abortions.
Education
Barack Obama believes early childhood education is of the utmost importance, and will put billions of dollars into it. He believes that america needs a real commitment to education. He also believes that there should be many ways for a student to have their college paid for. [other than scholarships] For example he believes that the government should pay the money for a person who is studying to become a teacher. He also believes that students should be able to earn college tution, Like 4,000 dollars of tution a year for 100 hours of community service. He also wants to get parents re-engaged with their childrens education, and will make it easier for the parents to be involved.
Death Penalty
Barack Obama believes the the dealth penatly should not be comeltelt de-legalized but should be enforced fairly and with extreme caution. He believes that the death penalty should not discriminate anything. But he does believe that some henious crimes desrve the "ultimate punishment."
Environment
Energy issues have so dominated the 2008 election that all other environmental issues have fallen aside. en previously asked what he would do to better the Environment Barack Obama said "It is critical that we understand this is not just a challenge, it's an opportunity, because if we create a new energy economy, we can create five million new jobs, easily. It can be an engine that drives us into the future the same way the computer was the engine for economic growth over the last couple of decades. We can do it, but we're going to have to make an investment. The same way the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out, for defense purposes, how to communicate, we've got to understand that this is a national security issue, as well." Barack Obama believes that immedate action should be taken twords the environment because it is in crisis. In further support of his beliefs Obama will end the notion of Yucca Mountain nuclear storage, and Promote organized inner city recycling.
Health Care
When asked about Health Care Obama said "Well, I think it should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can't pay their medical bills--for my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they're saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don't have to pay her treatment, there's something fundamentally wrong about that." Obama believes the problem with health care is affordability so he will lower the cost and make it completely government paid. So everyone will ahve acess to it, the rich and poor alike. He will guarantee health care for anyone who needs it.
Immigration
Barack Obama says that Americans have nothing to fera from the Illegal Immigrants today. he says we need a comprehensive reform, much like the one McCain used to support. He pushes poeple to recognize the humanity of immigrants, and also believes every student hsould be encouraged to learn a second language. He feels that deporting 2 million people is unnessisary and impractical, and he will vote to continue funding for "sanctuary cities."
Iraq War
Barack Obama believes the Iraq war is a waste of money and lives because it is completely unnessisary. He said "I am not opposed to war. I am opposed to a rash war." He believes the the war conceptually flawed from the start. He plans to ahve all the troops out of Iraq by the end of 2009. He also says he will end the mindset it has gotten us into. Although he will be pulling troops out of Iraq he still plans to send men to target and try to find Al Queada, and will only place troops in harms way when absolutely nessisary.
Economy
Barack Obama blames the Economic Crisis on Bush by saying that when Bush came in we had a surplus and now after he has been in term we have a deficit. He supported the bailout because he veiws it as the only way to gte us back on our feet but lso believes many changes must be made so it does not happen again.
Poverty
Barack Obama believes that there is too much wealth held at the top and not enough of it trickles down to the bottom. He believes that we should "spread the wealth" through all American citizens. In order to do this he will tax the wealthy more and the poor less. Using the extra money from the alleged "rich" to help pay for things for the poor. He grew up in a family with very little money which has probably shaped his overall veiwpoint on the entire situation.
Stem Cell Research
In a letter to the president urging him to support the bill expanding the right for Stem Cell research Obama wrote: Recent developments in stem cell research may hold the key to improved treatments, if not cures, for those affected by Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, spinal cord injury and countless other conditions. Obmaa has voted yes to all bills expanding the right for stem cell research and believes the with further research can bring even better curs to the medical world. This is especailly important to a huge number of crippling, sometimes fatal diseases and may end up saving millions of lives.