by Anna Johnson

Created on: May 31, 2008

Black, white polka dot this whole issue with the Democratic Party is a buzz kill for me.
Coming from a black mother and white father, does this make it so that my choice is more objective? No this whole thing is crazy blacks are not just voting for Obama because he is black and blacks are not the only people voting for him. Just as it is not just women that are voting for Hillary it feels like the world has gone mad. Everyday watching coverage on this whole election process makes me stop and think this is crazy.

It seems like this is Gore and Bush all over again with the chads, dimples and puckers.
The United States is supposed to be like this super power and it does not look that way right now. If you ever traveled to other countries, the first question they ask is. "So where are you from, the answer is the USA." It seems people from other countries cannot wait to ask a thousand questions in two minutes. Have we come so far from where we were that other places find us to be like a tabloid or soap opera? Please do not get me wrong I love the USA born and raised here my whole life. I understand that we have it great compared to some of the third world places I have been. Just to see people living in shacks with no running water, electric, and transportation is walking.

My imagination could not stretch that far to give up all the luxuries that I have. Freedom of speech allows me to ask the question that everyone is avoiding do we still have a racial divide. Well the answer would be yes if you could not say to your friend of another race. I will not vote for Hillary because she is a women or I will not vote for Obama because he is African American. Then guess what we still have a long way to go. If the issues are, sex, color, and we cannot be honest without everyone being riled up. Then yes, we still have some bridges to cross in the good old USA. Does that mean we are going backward I think not once upon a time a women or an African American did not even have the write to vote. Let alone have a chance at becoming the next president of the United States of America.

Lastly I wish the media and the candidates would stop speaking for the American People. Some of the folks seemed so detached from what the working class even wants that it is sad. How about some cheaper gas, grocery's, clothes on the kids backs, and safe schools. Oh yeah it would be nice to be able to hold onto the house and not be in the land of foreclosure. Can we please get back to the core issues of what matters here. We the people not all of this political mumbo jumbo and who did what. At the end of the day, we all need someone in the white house that can put us back into having a middle class at all.

These are just a few thoughts rolling around in my little head over here at little house on the prairie.

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