Your Right or Not

I need to tell you about something I heard on the radio.  I mostly listen to talk radio.  Mostly Boortz and Beck just because they are on when I am driving home from work.  On the way to work, at 3-4 am there isn't much except for the alien station, Coast to Coast.  

I think it was on Boortz that I heard a clip from the Howard Stern show.  They had a guy go on the streets of Harlem to interview obama supporters. Funny thing was that after he determined that they were for obama he would ask them questions like "So you are ok with Sarah Palin being Vise President?" or "Do you like obama because he is pro life or because he thinks we need to stay in Iraq and finish the job?".  You would not believe the responses.  They would say something like "Yah, they need to stay there and get the job done."  I know the cheerleaders are saying right now, "What is wrong with Sarah Palin being Vise President, you don't think a woman can do the job?".  These people had no idea what obama was about.  How incredibly scary.  To not even know who the Vise Presidential candidates are.  I bet these are the same people that leave a chad hanging.  You can see these interviews on youtube.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5p3OB6roAg

To be fair I will say that the same thing might happen, I haven't found it yet, with McCain supporters.

The thing I have to comment on is the "Right" to vote.  Ask someone where it states that we have the right to vote for President of the United States and they will most likely say the Constitution.  It is a myth that there is a Constitutional right to vote for President of the United States.  It is true.  It was left up to the states to decide how to choose their electors. (Senators weren't to be elected be the general population either.)  You know, the ones who really vote for President.  If they (the states) want to they can have a lottery or choose the oldest people in their state, or the ugliest people to be their electors.  It just so happens that every state has chosen to use a popular vote.  The result?  That is why we have the ultra uninformed voting for President.  That is why we have great masses voting for Presidents based on their good looks or color of their skin (can go for or against).  

Maybe before we go into the polling booth they should ask us who the Presidential tickets are.  If you can't even name the top two party's candidates then perhaps those people shouldn't vote.  How hard is it to learn a few names.  It's not like being asked to learn where they stand on their political philosophies.  But, if we did that, we might not even have 538 people that could answer correctly.  It would thwart the entire political process that we have come to know as the Presidential Election.

El Toro Negro