Compare and Contrast

Author's Note: This is the ninth paragraph that I have done for my COM 105 class and I received a 4/5 or an A- letter grade on it.

Compare & Contrast

The differences between Obama’s and Clinton’s three main policies while small are significant. On the first issue regarding health care, while Hillary Clinton’s proposal for universal healthcare is superb to Barack Obama’s proposal for a health care system that is not a mandate but still enables everyone to eventually become covered, Obama’s has the bonus political aspect of allowing the concept of single-payer universal health care to be sold more easily to the American people since there is still somewhat of a significant hurdle in regards to this issue. On the second issue regarding foreign policy, there is a very small difference between how Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy proposal and Barack Obama’s foreign policy proposal would work out. While Hillary seems to want to cater to the Neo-Conservative base a little with her foreign policy proposal, which for the most part includes less diplomacy and more chances for war, Barack Obama’s foreign policy plan enables us to step back and start talking with leaders with have disagreements with first and try to resolve our differences and doing our best to avoid another war. Plus with Barack Obama’s plan we have a chance to heal some of the wounds with the world that we have created thanks to some of the current administration’s bad foreign policy plan. Finally Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s energy plans are very similar, but Barack Obama’s calls for three times as much financial stimulus. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both want a cap and trade proposal that will reduce GHG carbon emissions by 80% before the year 2050. They key differences is that Barack Obama wants to auction off 100% of those emissions and $150 billion of the auction proceeds to be used over 10 years to stimulate clean energy development", while Hillary Clinton only wants to auction off only $50 billion. On top of all of this, Obama also “is willing to ban new coal-fired power plants that fail to use the latest technology to prevent carbon dioxide from getting into the atmosphere”, and whether this means he is willing to follow Chris Dodd’s approach and ban new coal plants unless they have “operational carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) facilities”, which is a huge deal and a very significant progressive approach to a progressive energy policy, or follow John Edwards approach in “banning new plants unless they are compatible with CCS -- i.e., requiring that new coal plants be IGCC”, which is not as significant as the former, but is still an additional bonus on what Hillary Clinton proposes and still takes on a progressive approach and moves us forward into dealing with the energy crises we need to resolve within the early years of the 21^st-century. In conclusion, while there are very few differences between Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s three main policy proposals, the differences are significant and when you add it all up it is enough for me to support Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton.