If you follow this fascinating race between Sen. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., no doubt you've heard reports of voter’s fretting over whether to vote for one or the other JUST BECAUSE of the candidate’s gender and/or race.
Many black women supporting Clinton have been blasted because they aren't supporting their race...just as many white women supporting Obama catch flack for not backing a female.
Where do you stand?
To me, it seems pretty darn silly...and very dangerous.
I try to vote for the person who is best qualified to get us out of the eight year mess our current president has led us into. I could care less if the person is half-German, half-Chinese trans-sexual eunuch...as long as they have the brains to bring America together and sort out the problems.
So, let me know where you stand on the gender/race issue!
Marie2008-03-06T10:37:34Z
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Neither! If a person votes just based on race and gender the best person for the office is overlooked. I do not use this criteria to make a judgment on who to vote for. I use whether the person represents my views and their qualifications for the job. Based on my own criteria, I cannot vote for Hillary, Obama, McCain! Since their stand is all the same on the illegal immigration issue. This is one of the big issues for me!
It is still early, I will have to figure out who is the lesser "evil".
I don't agree with your politics, but I DO agree that voting on the basis of someone's gender or race is irresponsible.
Voters should inform themselves and vote with the person whose positions on issues follow most closely with they way the country should go in the future.
A Woman, and African American, or a White Man, for that matter, has no more "right" to my vote than anyone else. The trouble is that news organizations use demographics to identify who is voting for whom... so it seems like their identity is the reason they are voting a certain way... Seems a little over-simplified, don't you think?
I am voting for the person that I believe will do the best job for our country and the people in our own country that need food and medical care. A President who will respond immediately to disasters in our own country. I want the war to end and to save the lives of our troops in Iraq and all the innocent Iraqi children who have been killed in this ugly war. I want a President who will bring back the respect we used to have from other countries. I don't care if it's a he, she or pink, black or orange!
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