Obama Voters

It’s been over two and a half years since our last presidential election and just about fifteen months until our next one. Although, we are over a year away from the actual election the politicking is in full swing. Obama is no longer working at the job he was elected to do. Instead he is just out fund-raising and campaigning for re-election. During these last couple of weeks I have been asking myself; “who would vote for him?” I have a couple of answers and a few theories.

The first answer is fairly obvious; people “drank the kool-aid”. They were simply duped. Obama and the democrats told everyone what they wanted to hear and so the people voted for him. Perhaps if people were not so lazy and willing to take a handout and were a little better informed, we would have a different president now. In other words, Obama preyed on the ignorant and greedy.

The second answer is also simple; they are the hard-liners. These are the people that will vote for a candidate based only on what party he belongs to. There is nothing anyone can do to help them.

Okay now the theories. One of my theories; black voted for Obama because they would feel or be made to feel like they betrayed their race. Yes, I said it. I believe they just voted for a black president whether they agreed with his views or not. I wonder how many blacks regret their decision.

Theory two; white people voted for Obama because they thought it “cool” and very much in line with their progressive views. How can you be progressive and not vote for a minority? It seems that they think that if it has been done before then it is not progressive.

The third; Hispanics and in particular the ones in the southwest which are mostly Mexican, they also believed the political speeches. They believed that he was going to wave a magic want and give every immigrant citizenship via amnesty. The truth is that, he hasn’t and won’t do anything about it. He has barely mentioned this topic in the more than two years in office and he only mentioned it to blame the republicans for his inaction.

The only solution for all of this is; knowledge. We must all be informed as much as we possibly can.

Hugo