THE PEOPLE SPEAK: Don’t let the media tell you how to vote

June 25, 2008 05:05 pm

— I read that the media needs me to “get past racism and/or consideration of race” when voting for a presidential candidate. I sure do agree.
The media then says to me that I should vote for Obama due to the image that vote would send to the world. Pardon me?
Can anyone say, “Jim Crow” or “the National Voting Rights Act of 1965”? Can anyone imagine the pain and suffering that people went through to break those barriers? Over 90 percent of African Americans have voted for Obama across the board. How is it possible that anyone or anything could receive that type of turnout in this country without there being some really serious issues regarding racism, in reverse?
I want my children to be protected, I want my country to survive, and I want to vote based upon qualifications and ability not image.
Does this make me a racist?
Obama’s record is abysmal and the most liberal of all elected senators. Obama has no expertise and has not said once how he intends to pay for all his socialistic ideas. Not once has he addressed the plan for protection of this country and the borders. No, not that he looks good, a real plan.
I detest the KKK, Aryan Nation, but I also detest the Black Muslims (oops, the “M” word) and Farrakhan, Sharpton and Jackson, who have only one agenda and that is their own selfish needs.
We cannot live in the past, but I refuse to vote for a person due to image or media coercion when we are at such a critical juncture in our history. We were not attacked because we were perceived as strong. We were attacked because the wolves thought we were lame or weak.
With the U.S. Supreme Court running national security now and the media electing officials, what’s next?
David Bevil
Wagoner