George Walker Bush - The US President

George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946 and he is the 43rd and present President of the United States. He worked as the 46th Governor of Texas during 1995 to 2000 before being crown in as President on January 20, 2001. His term ceases at noon ET on January 20, 2009.

Bush is the eldest son of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush. Upon graduating from Yale University, Bush seved in his family's oil businesses. He wedded Laura Welch in 1978 and unsuccessfully ran for the United States House of Representatives instantly thereafter. He then co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before winning Ann Richards to become Governor of Texas in 1994. In a near and controversial election, Bush was elected to the Presidency in 2000 as the Republican candidate, getting a majority of the electoral votes but missing the famous vote.

8 months into his first term as President, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks happened, and Bush published a world War on Terrorism, ordered an invasion of Afghanistan that same year, and an conquering of Iraq in 2003. In addition to national security issues, President Bush has tried to encourage policies on the economy, education, health care, and social security reform. He has enacted large tax cuts, medicare prescription drug benefits for seniors, the No Child Left Behind Act, and his tenure has seen a national debate on immigration.

Cynthia Ann McKinney - The Green Party

Cynthia Ann McKinney was born on March 17, 1955 is a earlier United States Representative and the 2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States. McKinney worked as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives during 1993–2003 and 2005–2007, initially representing Georgia's 11th Congressional District and later Georgia's 4th Congressional District. She is the 1st African-American woman to have represented Georgia in the House.

In the 1992 election, McKinney was elected in the freshly reformed 11th District, and was re-elected in 1994. When her district was redrawn and refigured due to the Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Miller v. Johnson, McKinney was simply elected from the new 4th District in the 1996 election, and was re-elected two times without substantive opposition.

McKinney was won by Denise Majette in the 2002 Democratic primary, in part due to Republican crossover voting in Georgia's open primary election, which admits anyone from any party to vote in any party primary, and in part due to her controversial data, which comprised a suggestion that George W. Bush knew in advance of the September 11 attacks.

Charles O. Chuck Baldwin - The Constitution Party

Charles O. Chuck Baldwin was born on May 3, 1952 is a chair person of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, and was the presidential nominee of the Constitution Party for the U.S. Presidential election in 2008. He too was the Constitution Party nominee for U.S. vice president in 2004. He broadcasts a daily one-hour radio program, called Chuck Baldwin Live, and scripts a daily editorial column insertion on its website, on VDare, and in many newspapers.

Being a Republican Party member, Baldwin was the state chair of the Florida Moral Majority in the 1980s. But during the 2000 campaign of Republican George W. Bush for U.S. President, Baldwin emptied the party and started a long time of criticism of Bush. Baldwin endorsed U.S. Representative Ron Paul for the 2008 Republican nomination for president, and Paul in response endorsed Baldwin for the presidency in the 2008 general election; the 2 have same platforms. Baldwin boldly opposes the new world order, the United Nations, U.S. income taxes, the Patriot Act, and assaults on individual liberties in common; he would withdraw troops from Iraq and try to end illegal immigration. Emphasizing America's Christian heritage, he strongly helps the gold standard, the right to have and bear arms, homeschooling, and pro-life legislation like the Sanctity of Life Act.

Robert Laurence Bob Barr, Jr. - The Libertarian Party

Robert Laurence Bob Barr, Jr. was born on November 5, 1948 and was the Libertarian Party nominee for United States Presidential Election 2008. He is a former federal prosecutor and member of the United States House of Representatives. He also represented Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Republican during the period 1995 to 2003.

Barr attained country prominence as one of the leaders of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Barr associated the Libertarian Party in 2006, and worked on its National Committee.

Barr is a famous speaker with the All American Speakers Bureau. He has traveled broadly and spoken to audiences over all America and upcountries, and has worked as an official member of the U.S. delegation at many major United Nations conferences.

Currently he practices law with the Law Offices of Edwin Marger, and owns a consulting firm, Liberty Strategies LLC, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and and also with offices in the Washington, D.C. area. Barr always work tirelessly to support preserve our basic right to privacy and our other civil liberties secured in the Bill of Rights.

John Sidney McCain III - The Republican Party in 2008

John Sidney McCain III was born on August 29, 1936. He is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and was the presidential nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 United States presidential election.

McCain has his graduate degree from the U.S. Naval Academy. He turned a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. While on Vietnam War, he almost lost his life in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, during a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was gunned down, severly injured, and caught by the North Vietnamese. He was put in jail until 1973. McCain ran across episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war injuries left him with lifelong physical barriers.

He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981, relocated to Arizona, and went into politics. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he acted for 2 terms, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, succeeding re-election easily in 1992, 1998, and 2004. While commonly adhering to conservative principles, McCain at times has had a media reputation as a "maverick" for having disagreed with his party. After being investigated and hugely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the Keating Five, he done campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns, which randomly led to the passage of the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002. He is also famous for his work towards restoring diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the 1990s, and for his trust that the war in Iraq must be fought to a successful end. McCain has been the Senate Commerce Committee, has opposed spending that he thought to be pork barrel, and played a vital role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations.

US Presidential Election 2008

US Presidential Election 2008


The United States of America presidential election of 2008, conducted on Tuesday November 4, 2008, is the fifty sixth consecutive quadrennial United States presidential election to choose the President & the Vice President of the United States. Barack Obama succeeded the essential electors required to be elected President on November 4, 2008. Barack Obama is the president-elect, and will be commenced on January 20, 2009.

The Republican Party had nomination of John McCain, the senior United States Senator from Arizona as its nominee; Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois, as its nominee by the Democratic Party. Former Congressman Bob Barr was nomination by The Libertarian Party, the Constitution Party pastor and radio talk showed Chuck Baldwin, and the Green Party former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Ralph Nader declined to request the Green Party nomination and head as an independent candidate.

The 2008 usa election was the first time in U.S. history that an African American was elected president. It was also the very first time that 2 sitting senators opposes each other, as well as the first time an African American was a presidential nominee for a main party. Additionally, it was the first time in history that both major candidates were from out of the continental United States — Hawaii for Obama and the Panama Canal Zone for McCain. As the Republican nominee for vice-president was a woman, Governor Sarah Palin, the eventual winning ticket was bound to be historic, as neither an African American nor a female had achieved either of the respective offices. If John McCain had been chosen, he would have been the oldest first-term president. Senator Joseph Biden is the first Roman Catholic vice president to be elected.

The election coincided with the 2008 Senate elections in 33 states, House of Representatives elections across states, and gubernatorial elections in 11 states, as well as different state referenda and local elections.