Candidates for the 2008 Presidency: An Overview

The rat race to presidency! How many candidates do we really need in this presidency race? It seems like now days anybody who thinks there's somebody is running for president. What actually makes a person feel they will be right to be an American president? Most candidates have never a even been heard of. They have never done anything for this country or the communities that they actually did live in. As far as I know, but prove me wrong.

Democrat Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor who built a centrist image, abandoned his bid for the presidency on Friday after struggling against better known, better financed rivals. Is it really the money? is it the simple fact that no money is running again stronger opponents that there is no chance whatsoever for him to actually win. According to Tom Vilsack, "money is the reason we're leaving. There's no point in fighting the inevitable. It will be a waste of time, and money that I just do not have".

In January Vilsack, left office and travel to early voting states, but he attracted neither the attention nor the campaign cash of his top tier rivals, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards. He even faced obstacles in his home state. Now my opinion is that your home state sure be the state that you first archer campaign trail in. If you can't get the people you're of state to back you how do you figure you can get the rest of the country to also.

Vilsack ported in his most recent financial documents claiming to raise more than 1.1 million in the last seven weeks of 2006 but only had around $396,000 in the bank. Some campaign financial experts contend candidates will need 20,000,000 by June 2007 to remain viable. When asked where does he think he went wrong, Mr. Vilsack said, "I came up against something for the first time in my life that hard work and effort couldn't overcome".

Mr. Vilsack's withdrawal still leaves a crowded field of eight democrats. He will remain an important figure in the presidential race as former rivals undoubtedly will seek his endorsement to help to win Iowa. Vilsack, who likely will be considered as a vice presidential nominee, Peter lee declined to endorse another candidate at his news conference. Other campaigns immediately began to seek out Vilsack's well respected staff, hoping to pick up talented political operatives with experience and political background.

Even though Mr. Vilsack has a record as governor he also tried to sell himself as a candidate with a compelling personal story, which she hoped that sparked national interest in his candidacy. I was a story fall here it is. He was left as an infant at a catholic orphanage in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and adopted by what he described as a troubled by a loving family. Being as I am from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, I had tried to locate the orphanage in which Mr. Vilsack, states he was left at, but I was unlucky in my search.

For those who don't follow politics or who don't actually know whom Tom Vilsack is. Tom Vilsack was the first democrat to formally enter the 2008 great ease when he announced his candidacy in November. Having well to do parents, they sent him to a private preparatory school, a mother who was an alcoholic and beat him a lot and a father who suffered financial problems. To me, that sounds like an average every day in American citizen. Most of these candidates grew up very upper class really don't connect with the average American citizen.

Everybody complain about president we have, but in how the president gets elected. As adults you must understand, realize and remember that the president is not elected, but selected. Our votes really do not count is all a stage play to make us feel like we're involved. The governmental officials select who they want to be president.

The role do you think should be president? Are we ready for a black president ? Are we ready for a female president? Ask yourself these questions and let me know what your conclusion is. Well this concludes this article for now I will have a follow-up each month on each presidential candidate. Thanks for reading hope you enjoyed it and you have any questions please leave comments.