I found these two articles today that give a pretty thorough non-partisan analysis of the health care plans of Barack Obama and John McCain. Definitely worth a read.
John McCain's plan Barack Obama's plan The rest of the site is pretty interesting, too, including this article about the PBS special Sick Around the World. Comments  Videos Being Viewed Right Now Newest Channel Talk Posts  1. VideoSpore? (Videogames Talk)  2. Good morning! And in case I don't see you ... etc etc (Happy Talk)  3. Fear Not. The Answers Lie in Moorhead, MN (Religion Talk)  4. (dupe) (Happy Talk)  5. Wings vs. Spacy (Wings Talk)  6. Deadmau5 in Vegas (Canada Talk)  7. you win (Gay Talk)  8. anyone know what video I'm talking about? (german tv rap) (Terrible Talk)  9. Tropic Thunder: Turkey (Terrible Talk)  10. Flight or Invisibility? (Wings Talk) Subscribe Video Hosts We accept video submissions from the below hosts. If your favorite video provider is not available, please contact us to suggest it.
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Discussing symptomology is fine and dandy, to a point. Watching a sucking chest wound and discussing it, does nothing for the victim's possible recovery.
In any case, here's Obama's stance (and possibly meaningless rhetoric) on immigration. For comparison, here's what McCain's website says about immigration. He doesn't really give specifics about what he'll do, just his assessment of what we need to think about on the issue. I've not been terribly interested in Immigration as an issue, but my own personal sense is that McCain and Obama have essentially the same plan on immigration, and McCain gets heckled by the other Republicans for that.
On NAFTA itself, this is all I'm finding at the moment, but it's probably as specific as a candidate can really be at this stage, since it involves negotiations with other countries. McCain's site is less specific still, in saying only that he "seeks to reduce barriers to trade", which I know from other sources means preserving NAFTA as is, and pushing to extend a similar agreement to Central America (CAFTA).
To the general decline of American culture, here's what Obama has to say about education, and family values. There's also this speech he gave on father's day, where he speaks about family and societal values in general.
While I'm worried about the decline of American culture, I'm not sure how much government can really do about it, beyond expanding education, trying to keep people's economic situation stable. I'd argue we also need to bring back real regulation of the media, something Obama has said he wants to do.
In any case, my post was spurred by finding two detailed, non-partisan analyses of the health care plans of the two main Presidential candidates, and I wanted to share them.