Apparently, poverty, crime, taxes, homelessness, and unemployment are of secondary concern to Baltimore State Senator Lisa Gladden, a democrat, who showed up at the opening of the General Assembly session sporting a flashy Obama watch.

But it wasn’t so much the accoutrements she was wearing, it was what she said to a reporter from the local Fox affiliate that rings of the thoughtless and all too often clueless nature of our elected officials.

Gladden, in a video interview you can see here, told the intrepid political reporter, “It doesn’t matter if the state of Maryland is broke as long as Barack Obama is going to be President of the United States – this is great!” Read More

This is what I been saying all along is that people was voting for Barack Obama because he was black and not the issues! You can tell this by the Barack supporters on the blogs when they defend him no matter what he does! Would that not be called a racist vote?