My Thoughts on...

This is in response to my wifes blog (http://www.davisfamilydoodles.blogspot.com/) Titled: "Politics as Usual; It's All Black and White"

I find it too funny how uninformed the America vote is or worse yet their unwilling necessary to get to the truth. My wife asked me to view a blog that she reads and to watch some clips called “the McCain-Palin Mob” that was posted on it. In the crowd were people stating that Barack Obama was a terrorist but when asked why they believe that they couldn’t answer or gave answers that made little to no sense; very uninformed answers. There was even an African American man that when ask why he was supporting McCain instead of Obama, this appeared to be a race question, which I didn’t think fairly asked. But what made it worse was the man’s response “Get out of my face” was all he could say.

A man answered that “Because he was raised with the teachings of his father” His father who he had only seen twice in his life. Didn’t this man know that he was raised by his grandparents, a grandfather who serviced in the military during the war and grandmother who worked in a factory building the equipment needed by her husband. Clearly he did not, he only could say he was a terrorist and that was that.

I never play the race card because it, in my opinion is a sign of limited education and a sad excuse but I think in this case I have to ask these questions:

1) What if Obama’s name was Jimmy Williams
2) What is Mother was White American and His Father Black American, both born and raised in America

Then what?

Clearly he was good for the State of Illinois since he was voted into the Senate Twice. He developed a bill that allowed low income families to buy homes outside the ghettos of the cities. Isn’t this a good thing?

Not to limit myself because there are Black Americans who don’t believe he represents the Black Community. And why is that? He was raised by a single parent and then grandparents, he fought his way into a great college and got his degree, and instead of going into law firm where he could have made millions off the back of the rich, he instead chose to work as an advocate for the people and then a senator. Sounds like a normal Black American to me.

So I ask where did Palin come from? What qualifies her to be VP? When the people in the aforementioned clips were asked when did you first hear about Palin? most answered today, 6 months ago but one answered “in 1985, during her beauty pageant days” Surely this doesn’t qualify someone for VP. Or maybe it’s her being the governor of Alaska, where it was a good decision to get a hot tub for her office with tax payer’s money; ok now I’ll picking. The truth is I can’t talk intelligently about VP Candidate Palin and that’s because I know little about her, but I’m willing to acknowledge that. I do know about McCain and Obama. The same McCain who had an opportunity to give the same military a raise, which by the way he fought hard for but got voted down but during the same year had an opportunity to vote down a bill that gave congress and the senate a 125% pay and benefits raise but chose not to break the period of silence that would have killed the bill.

I know Obama who when it came time to vote not to go to war with Iraq stood by his beliefs and voted no. Did he do this because he’s a terrorist or because we had no need to go into Iraq; when it was Al Qaeda in Afghanistan that planned and executed the destroying of the Twin Towers and Pentagon? I understand the why of going to Iraq and I have been there twice supporting the Marines. I support them now because I’m retired after servicing 22 years and I have worked in the defense business since 1999. What I now don’t understand is why we’re still providing financial and military aid today when the Iraq government has Trillions in financial revenues.

I read once that Obama doesn’t support the troops in Iraq and voted down a bill to pour more money into the Iraq War. The fact is he voted down that bill because he believed that more attention should be paid to the real war front Afghanistan; as did many others.

I guess the short of it is Vote for who you want to, it’s your right but make an informed vote. Not one based on McCain’s POW Status or Palin’s ability to give you the feeling you can sit with her and have a cup of coffee and talk or even because Obama’s Black (this goes both ways). Get to know your candidate, what they stand for, how they will help the American People not just you but everyone.