I have to start this post saying that I have never been well-informed and updated about politics in general, either American or Italian. On tv everyday I see news about politicians, but I have never been so interested about them. I think politics, especially in Italy, has now become a way people can emerge, promising things they can't often guarantee and realize. Surfing the net I have now a superficial idea about McCain, an American Senator who is promoting his electoral campaign against those of Obama and Clinton as President of the United States. The personal site of Berlusconi and PDL also helped me a lot to understand his mission and what he want to realize in Italy.
McCain
After having seen some videos and transcripts of discourses about McCain, I can see that he is very honoured to be American: he has never believed he was destined to be President. He do believe Americans are born with responsibilities to the country that has protected their God-given rights, and the opportunities they afford them. He owe his country the meaning that service to America has given his life, and the sense that he is part of something greater than himself, part of a kinship of ideals that have always represented the last, best hope of mankind. His campaign must be, and will be more than another tired debate of false promises, empty sound-bites, or useless arguments from the past that address not a single American's concerns for their family's security.
Presidential candidates are judged on their records, their character and the whole of their life experiences. But Republicans are also expected to concentrate their efforts on the challenges that will confront America on their watch and explain how they intend to address them.
America is at war in two countries and involved in a long and difficult fight with violent extremists who despise it, its values and modernity itself. He will defend the decision to destroy Saddam Hussein's regime as he criticized the failed tactics that were employed for too long to establish the conditions that will allow them to leave that country with their country's interests secure and their honor intact. In particulare McCain says that the next President must explain how he or she intends to bring that war to the swiftest possible conclusion without exacerbating a sectarian conflict that could quickly descend into genocide; destabilizing the entire Middle East; enabling their adversaries in the region to extend their influence and undermine their security there; and emboldening terrorists to attack them elsewhere with weapons Americans dare not allow them to possess. The next President must encourage the greater participation and cooperation of Americans'allies in the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The next President must lead an effort to restructure American military, intelligence, diplomacy and all relevant branches of government to combat Islamic extremism, encourage the vast majority of moderates to win the battle for the soul of Islam, and meet the many other rising challenges in this changing world.
He will campaign in favor of seizing the opportunities presented by the growth of free markets throughout the world, helping displaced workers acquire new and lasting employment and educating American children to prepare them for the new economic realities by giving parents choices about their children's education they do not have now.
He will campaign to strengthen job growth in America by helping businesses become more competitive with lower taxes and less regulation.
He will campaign to make health care more accessible to more Americans with reforms that will bring down costs in the health care industry down without ruining the quality of the world's best medical care.
He will campaign to reduce American dangerous dependence on foreign oil with an energy policy that encourages American industry and technology to make their country safer, cleaner and more prosperous by leading the world in the use, development and discovery of alternative sources of energy.
He'll travel across the country in cities and rural areas, in communities of all ethnic backgrounds and income levels, offering his ideas and listening to the concerns and advice of Americans. He says that Americans aren't interested in an election where they are just talked to and not listened to; an election that offers platitudes instead of principles and insults instead of ideas; an election that results -- no matter who wins -- in four years of unkept promises and a government that is just a battleground for the next election. Their patience is at an end for politicians who value ambition over principle, and for partisanship that is less a contest of ideas than an uncivil brawl over the spoils of power.
He finally says that Republicans have to make the future better that the past. As he has served America all his life, he will fight every minute of every day to make certain Americans have a government that is as capable, wise, brave and decent as the great people they serve.
Berlusconi and the PDL
The electoral campaign of Berlusconi is based on 7 missions:
1) more growth and more infrastructure;
2) more helps to families;
3) more safety, more justice;
4) more services to citizens;
5) more support to the south Italy;
6) more federalism;
7) an extraordinary plane of public finance with the reorganization of the State.
All of that signifies: less taxes on families, on work, on companies = more consumptions, more production, more work = more revenues in the state coffers to help who is in need, to realize the infrastructures, to reduce the public debt.
The first mission of the PDL is to raise the growth of the state, to guarantee more infrastructures and more sources of energy, more work, more liberalizations and more support to the "made in Italy" and a reorganization of the public administration.
The second mission is to reduce taxes, to give all citizens a home, more social services and to give a future to the youth people.
The third mission is to guarantee more justice and safety, through the reduction of the numbers of non-European people and through a considerable presence of district policemen and through the fight against national and international terrorism.
The fourth mission want to reorganize the hospital structures and to eliminate the waiting lists, to facilitate the access to university to all people, also to the most indigent and to reward the most competent students and professors. The PDL also want to realize the so called "Founds of founds" to finance the investment on the research folowing the French model and to promote the Italian creativity in the field of the entertainment and of the art, encouraging the integration of foreign cultures into the Italian. For what concerns the envaironment the PDL want to defend the cultural inheritance and the conservation of the lanscape.
The fifth mission want to create more infastructures, streets and motorways in the south Italy, and a bridge on the "stretto di Messina"; they will also fight against the organized crime. An important goal the PDL want to achieve is to reorganize the system of waste in south Italy which the government of Prodi has completely destroyed.
The sixth mission is focused on the control of tax evasions and they will reward the regions with less tax evasions.
The seventh mission want to reduce the debt of the State, offering to the investors better opportunities of investment.
For what concerns the way McCain and Berlusconi interact with their audience, seeing the videos of some discourses of them, I can say they speak in a very relaxed and calm way. They sometimes become a bit angry when they speak about what the opponent party want to realize in a possible nominee as President. In general they seem very optimistic to become the next President and hopeful of the mission they want to realize.
I can see my post is very very long, but the things I wanted to say, or better the missions the two Presidents want to realize are very very long to show you.
I hope you'll appreciate my work!
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