Obama was born into the middle class, going to public school and experiencing the hardships the vast majority of Americans face unlike the Navy baby, McCain born with the advantage the perks of having a large amount of his family members being high ranking officers. Unlike McCain, Obama had to earn his way into a school of prestige. The fact that he has built himself up from nothing is a noteworthy attribute of a leader.

 As a matter of fact, Obama has risen to the top without falling in just about every establishment he's been associated with. Some in particular being Harvard's first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review based on his grades and a writing competition. Another would be his three years as the DCP's (Developing Communities Project, a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland)director. Through Obama's leadership, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000 (a near 500% budget increase), with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization. A country like the United States that is increasing becoming a husk of its form glory needs a leader that can create something out of next to nothing on his own if need be.

 However, McCain hasn't done anything at all unless connected with other groups of senators such as the "Gang of 14" and "Keating 5." As a matter of fact, the only major move McCain ever did was the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.

 Obama has been openly against government corruption and lobbyists that would sway lawmakers to make and modify laws to fit the interests of the companies and organizations they represent, as opposed to McCain who, between 1982 and 1987, had received $112,000 in political contributions from Charles Keating Jr. and his associates at Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. McCain was later contacted in order to prevent the government's seizure of Lincoln, and McCain met twice with federal regulators to discuss the government's investigation of Lincoln.

 Worse more, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that I spoke about earlier makes it so political parties and other organizations could spend unregulated "soft money" for whatever they wanted, including "issue advertising," a broad term that included any advertising that stopped short of expressly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate through words and phrases such as "vote for," "vote against," "support," "defeat," or "elect." This is how Bush/Cheney were able to get away with saying shit like "vote for us or the terrorists win." As it was not technically received or spent by the candidate's campaign, and did not technically advocate the election or defeat of a candidate, there were no legal limits. McCain-Feingold (as the Act is commonly known as)prohibited national political parties from raising or spending "soft money," but other organizations may still do what they want with it. What's the point of choosing a leader that has shown the possibility that he could be bought, and not just bought, but one that would make it easier for him and other politicians to be bought?

 McCain has also been a war hero that has been shunned by veteran activists as "abandoning the veterans" on POW/MIA and Agent Orange issues during his 2000 run against Bush for the primaries, which basically consisted of constant mud slinging instead of addressing the important issues going on at the time.

After that bitter political battle, he seemed to object everything Bush tried to do. McCain was one of only two Senate Republicans to vote against the Bush tax cuts. Besides the differences with Bush on ideological grounds, there was quite significant antagonism between the two remaining from the previous year's campaign. However, after 9/11, he immediately jumped on the bandwagon, becoming one of Bush's strongest supporters.

After 9/11, McCain supported Bush's tax cuts, and just about everything else Bush did, and in turn, Bush helped make it okay for McCain to accept money/bribes from lobbyists without regulation through the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.