Race doesn’t matter in the presidential office

Throughout this entire presidential campaign Barack Obama has garnered most of the African-American vote (why do we still use the term African-American? The very use of terms like this keeps the racial division alive). Hillary Clinton has received her largest support from white Americans (why aren’t whites labeled European-Americans?)

And the greatest racial division exists in the ‘old south’. Boy am I surprised. The three states that have shown the greatest polarization is Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.

To choose someone for our highest office based solely on race is a wasted vote, in my opinion. These are politicians. Haven’t you been paying attention to what elected politicians do to our country. What makes you think race is going to change anything?

One person doesn’t decide our future anyway. It’s the group of ‘expert advisors’ that the president surrounds himself/herself with. The president is not going to look out for one race over the other. The president will still be pulled from all sides to give special favors to whoever throws the most money at them. And if we have learned anything at all from American politics it is that big money always gets what it wants. It makes no difference if you are white, black, red or yellow. Money will win out.

When that phone rings at 3 AM do you really think that race will determine its outcome? It will be a crisis and the president’s background or race won’t amount to anything in how you deal with it. What does matter most is how you deal with foreign nations to prevent that phone call from being made.

Let us not forget, the president is only a figurehead put in place for us to focus the blame and the glory. The people who truly run this country are the group of advisors he/she surrounds themselves with. Look at the group of people George W. Bush surrounds himself with. They are a bunch of corporate-backed, opportunistic millionaires who saw an opportunity to make even more money by supporting a war in Iraq. Instead of taking the moral high ground to actually help the people of Iraq they decided to play the military card as a means of helping themselves make more money.

These people are politicians first and foremost. They will say anything to get elected. Someone please enlighten me as to how many years you have to go back to find the last president who actually gave a damn about the common man and was able to change our lives for the better.

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain are millionaires. Do you think they care about the plight of the minimum wage grunt whose tax dollars go to pay the salaries of that other group of millionaires collectively called Congress? They care only so much as to do what it takes to keep that money flowing in their direction.

If any one of these three had been sitting behind that desk in the oval office when the twin towers were destroyed, do you think their decision to declare war on terrorism would have been any different than George W. Bush’s? Maybe, just maybe, we would not have declared war against Saddam Hussein, we will never know. But I can assure you that our day to day lives would have changed anyway.

Will there be fewer political scandals under Clinton’s presidency or Obama’s presidency? How about McCain’s presidency?

Will the moral and ethical character of this country be uplifted more by having one millionaire with corporate America in their pocket over the other?

Will the price of gasoline and food come down quicker under the presidency of a black president or a white president?

Will our dilapidated infrastructure, our rapidly depleting social security and healthcare systems be repaired quicker under one over the other?

Does race have anything to do with answering any of these questions?

Race doesn’t amount to squat when it comes time to facing a nuclear backed government bent on our destruction.

Please, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas in particular, and the rest of country in general, do not waste your vote on things that don’t matter. Vote for the character of the person based on that person’s past performance. Let’s try to get it right this time, for everyone’s sake, not just yours.