by Marie Devine

Created on: May 14, 2008

The next president of the United States will have a full agenda of problems to overcome in our own country and in the world. World problems are being discussed by presidents of 192 nations, advisers from many independent sources, the European Union, the Quartet, the United Nations, groups from many religions, and aid and disaster groups. The United States still holds a leadership position in the world arena of debates and advisory councils. The complexity of the position of president of the United States in 2008 makes it difficult to choose who gets our vote in our current selection of hopeful leaders.

All the candidates have been in leadership roles in government and in oversight committees. Senator Obama of Illinois has the least experience; in 1997 he became senator of Illinois. Senator Clinton entered politics in 1979 as the First Lady for Governor Bill Clinton in Arkansas, later as First Lady for President Bill Clinton for eight years and currently as Senator of New York. Between those two, one must be selected to help solve the energy crisis, global warming, pollution, food crisis, financial crisis, immigration, health care crisis, crime and drugs, the Iraq war, the war on terror, and the terrors of disasters in our own nation, to be the Democratic candidate for president. That candidate will then be compared to the Republican nominee, John McCain who was elected to the House of Representatives in 1982 after retiring from the Navy as a war hero; he currently is the senator for Arizona and has a lot of experience in many areas including the House of Representatives, the Senate and various committees.

Agreement on any issue is important to getting many things done through the presidency. The decisions that solve the problems will cause job losses and or increased costs; they will either leave our troops at war or bring them home possibly feeling the job is incomplete or leaving us vulnerable. Any candidate will have to be able to communicate ideas in a way so all sides can agree because of the power seen in the suggestion.

All candidates are passionate about being president because only as leaders do they have power to set their goals in motion. None of the candidates have put forth an idea that will solve problems without causing other problems. Creating more jobs creates more pollution of air, land, water, and food, global warming, energy needs, wage disputes, immigration, and children unattended as parents work leading to more crime, drug and alcohol use, pregnancies, abortions, and stress. Most people acknowledge we are going the wrong way, and we need a change; but even candidates that speak of change are not suggesting changing our destroying ways.

No candidate has picked up a suggestion and solution that we recognize the goal in life is not employment with all the resulting world problems. The goal in life is retirement in a garden paradise that we can begin now by planting trees, bushes, vines and plants with food on them. Selecting pets that give milk and eggs give us true freedom and independence. The faster we head in that direction, the faster will be the solution to the pollutions and problems faced in the United States and the world. In each of the problems mentioned above, you will see an answer in the garden paradise model of life.
If we had a candidate that would be willing and able to encourage people to a more moral life of being satisfied with family and friends in a garden paradise, it wouldn't be difficult to choose the president in the 2008 election.

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