This blog is primarily for my school happenings and web development discoveries, but with the inauguration of Barack Obama occurring today, I’ve decided to give my political views on the situation, plus it’s my blog and I’ll do what I like

I voted for Obama and I’ve supported him from the beginning. I support him because of his views of Washington and how a restructuring of programs needs to be performed. I also believe in his foreign policy platform, mainly that we don’t have to control the world and we can negotiate with our enemies to try and achieve a compromise without war. I like that he opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning, as I did, and that he seems to oppose the idea of just attacking at a moments notice without reason. I do disagree with him on some issues like health care and oppose some of the other social programs he spoke of, but for the most part, we see eye to eye.

With all that being said, I really hope all of his talk during the campaign was more than that, talk. I think he could change America in ways that have not been seen in many years. I was young when Clinton was president, but I was old enough to know that we lived in relatively peaceful and prosperous times. I would like to see us back to the way things were during the Clinton administration and I hope Obama has the ability to achieve that plus more for our country. I have no reason to believe that Obama will not continue to back up all of the things he said in his speeches. He is a great speaker and I honestly believe that many people voted for him just because of his ability to speak and inspire people. I’m OK with that, since those same people probably wouldn’t have voted otherwise, but I hope his ability to speak does not outweigh his ability to make the correct decisions in tough times and clean up the mess left behind by Bush.

Good luck Obama and let me know if there’s anything I can do to help

I need to familiarize myself with trackbacks and pingbacks and all the other backs that wordpress uses. I’ve added the option to have all comments approved by me. So, hopefully this will alleviate the spam problems.

One another note, I’ve taken one final and I have one more today, then I’m done!! Heading the FL after that to visit the family. Hopefully I’ll be able to post more often then. I will update with grades once I have them.

Good luck to everyone else on their finals.

I’ve officially purchased philipmarquardt.com and gotten hosting with bluehost.com so I can start blogging about life at Tech and life in general, but also because I need to build a portfolio site of different web development jobs I’ve done. I’ll be posting at least twice a week and will play with wordpress a lot to get all the nice little widgets wordpress has.