Sen. Obama is absolutely desperate for this election to be over with. He wants every single one of his supporters to cast their ballots now, before Nov. 4, and while it is admirable how much he has inspired liberal America, what he is doing now is questionable. What is even the point of having an Election Day any more? It only serves as the day we announce the results of the election. I will tell you right here and now that early voting perhaps carries more risk than benefit.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform, an activist group that has faced allegations of fraud in registering voters, is still heavily under investigation. In fact, it is my humble opinion that any and all people who were registered to vote by people working with ACORN should all be checked to see that their votes are valid. There are far too many questions; if we let the election go forth as it stands today, I feel that we can be almost guaranteed to get a skewed result.
Thursday morning I was watching CNN as I got ready for the day. All of the sudden, regular programming was interrupted as it cut away to Barack Obama's speech in Indianapolis. It was as if we had landed on the moon all over again. I felt like everything just stopped, and we were being asked to divert our attention to hear the word according to Obama.
I have essentially made up my own mind on the election, but I like to hear what people have to say. I stood there and watched Obama endorse all of Indiana's major candidates off of a piece of paper, sounding about as cold as if he were reading sports scores or obituaries. Then he did it: he asked his people to vote early. In my opinion, he all but begged them to vote early. I have a good idea why he did so, and it in part goes back to ACORN.
The November elections have always had something known as October surprise. This is where something comes out about the candidates that could very well change the minds, not to mention the votes, of the American public. Perhaps Obama is trying to avoid his October surprise. I can understand that he feels as if he has had enough surprises already.
He had the surprise of people not being thrilled with the views of his pastor and mentor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, whose anti-American views are at the very least upsetting and at the very most dangerous. He somehow dodged that bullet by telling the American people of the dangers of racial discrimination, asking us to believe that he somehow sat in Wright's congregation for years but simply never agreed with Wright.
Sen. Obama also had the surprise of William Ayers being found to be his associate. Ayers was a radical terrorist with the Weather Underground in the 1960s and 1970s and has been another one of America's harshest critics, saying after 9/11 that he wished he had done more to attack the U.S. government.
His final surprise came with his runningmate, Joe Biden, saying he believes America will be attacked within the first six months of an Obama administration.
What all this says to me is the Obama campaign is trying to fly in under the radar of the American people. Early voting is obviously important, but it should not be abused.
Early voting was set up so that the elderly, people with disabled and those with circumstances preventing their getting to the polls on Election Day could all get their voices heard. Early voting should not be used so people can vote before the next helping of October surprise.
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