Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is the qualified candidate to become the next president of the United States.

Compared to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Obama has the realistic and appropriate solutions to re-stabilize the economy, bring the troops home from Iraq, provide better health care and help the middle class.

The Bush administration gives tax cuts to Americans who earn more than $1 million dollars and this cut is 160 times greater than the cuts given to the middle class.

Obama will eliminate this unfair tax cut and give more cuts 150 million working people instead.

Together with Joe Biden, they will give relief to families who need the cut, rather than favoring the few families who do not need financial assistance.

Also, the Obama-Biden team will increase the spending for biofuel technologies so that there will be more jobs available.

Contrary to what McCain has said, Obama supports small business owners such as “Joe the Plumber.”

With Biden, they will provide “Making Work Pay,” a $500 tax credit to almost every small business worker.

Another crucial issue is health care; the Obama-Biden team will require employers to offer health insurance or pay a tax to help the uninsured.

Obama will make health care affordable for all, regardless of one’s health history.

The current system, which most health insurance companies operate under makes it almost impossible for cancer survivors or diabetics to get affordable insurance.

However, without health insurance, these patients’ medical attention is put on the back burner while the insured with the same illness and the same pain will receive care a lot faster.

Many argue that Obama lacks experience compared to McCain, but this not a problem because our current president has demonstrated that experience can only go so far.

President George W. Bush was a First Lieutenant on the Texas National Guard and Alabama Air National Guard for five years. He was also the governor of Texas for five years.

However, with his decisions on the war in Iraq and his poor economic decisions, President Bush has one of the lowest approval rates in the nation’s history.

On the the war in Iraq, Obama will withdraw troops gradually.

However, he will keep the residual force in areas where there are heavy numbers of al-Qaida to ensure safety and keep peace for the Iraqi people.

He represents the real voices of this country: the working class.

He is “the change we need.”

Obama is what America needs in this difficult and chaotic time.