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In electing a politician to office, nothing can be more important than political views. The color of a candidate's skin will not make him/her more qualified for office or less qualified for office. While the social influences that shaped a candidate's views may be influenced by racial issues, it is the views and the views alone which determine the candidate's fitness for service. Good, constructive, wise politics helps a nation prosper. Bad policies and decisions hurt the prosperity and spirit of a country and people. The race of the policy maker does not change those facts.

Far too many people around the world focus entirely too much time and energy on this myth called race when what most people call race is only physical appearance. The recently completed Human Genome Project, an ambitious effort to map the human genetic code, reached the unexpected conclusion that there is only one race, the human race. The skin tones, hair types, and features that people like to call "race" are merely inherited appearance traits.

What muddies the political water is when a politicians "race" adversely affects his political views. This is the apparent case with Barack Obama. His pastor and mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright has had 20 years as an authority figure in Mr. Obama's life to indoctrinate the candidate with anti-American sentiment and racist bigotry. Obama even took the title of his book from one of Rev. Wright's sermons. When a politician has been infected with such a seething disdain for his country he is unfit to lead that country, no matter what seed that disdain springs from.

One comment by Senator Obama stands out as an example of his negative views toward many of those he seeks to preside over.

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or
antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or
anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Those words were spoken by Senator Obama and those words speak volumes about the views he would bring to the oval office. In that single sentence the astute reader can find a contempt for our second amendment rights, a contempt for religious faith, a tolerance for illegal immigration, and a commitment to dangerous and destructive trade deficits.

NO! Color has no place in determining a candidate's fitness for office. Color would not in any way make a qualified candidate unqualified, and color in no way makes the anti-American elitist Barak Obama qualified to hold the nations highest office.

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