Voting for Obama because he's black

I've heard from many sources that 90% of black Americans will vote for Barack Obama because he's black. I've also heard that some whites won't vote for him because he's black. Then, there are a large number of white voters who will vote for Barack Obama because they agree with him on the issues.

But wait a minute, let’s look at this.

We're expected to educate ourselves on who the candidates are, and where they stand on the issues. We do this to determine whether or not we agree with their views on abortion, taxes, gun control, foreign policy, etc. This is expected so the informed, educated voter will show up at the polls and make their selection based on the issues. Isn't that what the expectations have been since the very first vote was cast in this country? I'm not saying that every voter has taken the time to thoroughly examine all of the issues, but there has been an expectation that voters will be aware.

Now we seem to be excluding blacks from this expectation. We seem to be willing to accept that they aren’t even interested in issues, only race.

Why is that? Has anyone in the media asked that question of black voters? Is that racist?
Is it racist of the media to accept the idea that black American voters will automatically vote for Barack Obama because he’s black?

Why is this acceptable? Is it acceptable that the majority of black Americans could be viewed by the world as issue ignorant in this election? It almost seems as if the blacks are not expected to be politically aware, so the movers and shakers give them a pass when they cast their vote based on race. That white voters are racist if they vote by race, but blacks, well, they're just black voters, so we understand. There is something terribly wrong with this expectation!

I believe that voters, black or white do themselves a great disservice by ignoring the issues and voting according to race. If you ignore what your candidate stands for, you could find yourself in the middle of a catastrophe and have no idea how you got there.

Our voting mess

Ohio’s voting laws require voters to be residents of Ohio for at least 30 days immediately before the election. How can they then allow voters to register and vote on the same day between Sept. 30 and Oct 6? How will anyone know whether that person will be a resident between Oct. 5 and Nov. 4?
The current voting registration debacle swirling throughout Ohio and accusations of fraud in other states does not need to happen. What ever happened to common sense? It’s easy…take identification with you and go to your polling place to register to vote. Polling workers put your information into a database which can then be verified through other state databases. Simple! No harm, no foul. Those databases already exist.
Or can we use this crises as yet another tool for government intrusion. It happens every time we refuse to use common sense to solve a problem.
1. Identify a problem
2. Create a crisis
3. The public demands government intervention
4. Another piece of privacy dissolves.

WWUSD- What would Uncle Sam do?

Well, let me see. Why not use technology?
We can go to our doctor’s office to register to vote!
Your doctor can program an RFID chip with not only your medical information, but your voting information as well. Then inject that chip just under your skin just like the vet does for your dog.
When you vote on election day you just show up at your polling place where the voting machine will verify you by reading your RFID chip.
If the RFID chip can’t be found by the voting booth it won’t allow you to vote.
If more that one RFID chip is found the booth won’t allow you to vote.
Every booth will be connected to a state wide database where it can instantly record your vote, which will prevent a second vote from the same voter.
Voters will be allowed to vote at any polling place.

We can even implement a paper trail. After a voter casts a ballot the voting booth offers a receipt with the voter’s RFID voting information. The voter then takes that receipt and drops it into a ballot box.

Election results will be instantaneous and can be cross checked to make sure every vote was counted.

Additionally, with RFID those who find it necessary, will be able to track everywhere we go.

Sounds spookily Orwellian!!!!!