After what feels like years of debate and political squabble, the primary season is over and the Democratic Party has an official nominee: Barack Obama. Obama has become the first African American to ever win such a major party presidential nomination.
With last night’s 2 primary elections ending the race, Obama won Montana and rival Senator Hillary Clinton won South Dakota. After months of hardcore campaigning and split primary battles, Obama overreached the 2,118 delegates needed to become the nominee by 30 or 40 points with the help of pledged super delegates. Clinton has now started to court the idea of the vice presidency spot claiming she was open to that possibility.
Many political analysts believe this could be an opportune way to gain her supporters down the line since she had the majority of the popular vote during the election process. At this time “there is no deal in the works,” Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs announced on the subject.
The general fight has already begun, with republican nominee John McCain not wasting any time in taking every opportunity he can to lash out at the Chicago Senator and vice versa. After welcoming the young senator to the general election campaign, John McCain stated on a morning show that he thinks Obama has “exercised very bad judgment on national security issues and others.”
The two candidates have extremely different ideologies on the war in Iraq and what roles a president should play in international policy. While Obama argues that keeping U.S. combat troops in Iraq only strengthens Iran’s capabilities and is the wrong approach and wrong decision for the country, McCain believes that maintaining troops there will weaken Iran and allow U.S. troops to keep a watchful eye on the middle eastern country while they continue to establish their new democratic system. Obama has stated he believes the war in Iraq has also made American ally Israel less secure.
Obama believes that friendly diplomacy is key to strengthening America’s reputation overseas and has claimed he will ensure this by meeting with world leaders personally and speaking to them face to face. McCain criticizes this and believes it to be a dangerous and hasty approach.
The new presidential nominee will have to face serious critical charges against him concerning his religious past. He just recently left his church in Chicago due to unsettling comments made by his long time friend and Pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. He has also managed to dodge staunch rumors that involve him being a participant in the Muslim religion, but will most certainly have to avoid more of the same in the coming months leading up to the election in November.
Other challenges in order to clinch the oval office involve uniting the Democratic Party and winning an overwhelming number of Hillary Clinton supporters after a few hurtful incidents. In partially disenfranchised states such as Florida and Michigan, there are still many angry, unsatisfied democrats who aren’t happy with the final decisions made. He will have to be somewhat reliant on Clinton for her personal support and rallying in order to bridge the gap.
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