This picture was on Yahoo this week of protesters at a Barack Obama Rally in Miami:

The protestors had signs saying things like “Blacks Against Obama”, “Obama endorsed by the KKK”, “Obama for Abortion”, “Obama for Gay Marriage”. The AFP reports:

Around 20 African-Americans heckled Barack Obama at a rally here Friday, screaming chants and holding up placards accusing the White House hopeful of selling out the black community.

As the Democrat, who would be the first African-American US president, spoke, the protestors jumped up from their seats in a corner high up in the University of Miami’s basketball arena. One of their signs said: “Barack Obama endorsed by KKK (Ku Klux Klan).”

Police and Secret Service agents intervened, as thousands of Obama supporters responded with boos and jeers. The protestors did not appear to resist as they were hustled out of the stadium.

“OK, let’s get back to work,” Obama said after the five-minute interruption, resuming a speech dominated by attacks on Republican rival John McCain’s record on women’s issues and the economy at a time of financial crisis.

Here we go again.  Barack is “selling out the Black community”???  I don’t get it.  This guy is running to become the president of a multi-racial, multi-cutural, multi-religious country.  It is impossible and stupid for him to only support issues of the Black community.  If we pay attention to the policies he proposes, and if he truly enacts these policies, we will see that he is in this to help everyone, not just Black America.  We should stop scrutinizing him in a way that we would never scrutinize any other politician.  I didn’t hear about these same protestors showing up to disrupt Jeb Bush rallies when Florida mysteriously became a big stallwart in both the 2000 and 2004 presidential races, and his brother G.W. was the questionable candidate.  These same protestors aren’t showing up to McCain rallies accusing him of selling out the Black community.  And we already know what if you don’t make over about $300k a year, we aren’t even on the radar for McCain.  I’m just tired of the hypocrisy and unfair treatment.

If you don’t want to support Barack Obama, then don’t support him for legitimate reasons, not because of media generated lies or misunderstandings of his policies.  I implore you, please go to the Barack Obama website and see where he stands on everything before you make a decision.

The closer we get to the election day, the crazier things get.  I was watching Larry King last night and two Republicans were arguing with two Democrats and the four were pretty close to ripping each other’s heads off.  This election really has people excited.  Now whether that excitement is for good or bad is a totally different story.

In the midst of all of this craziness, I want to know what is the place or appropriateness of “Hacktivists”?  If you havent’s heard, these are the organizations that hack websites and email accounts with some sort of politicial intention.  This past week, images of Sarah Palin’s hacked Yahoo email account has been posted on the web:

and this one

This was reportedly her “personal” email address, but she was using it as a means of communicating the official business of Alaska.  So was it really “personal”?  This is why the government has secured servers behind very intensive firewalls.

Also, Bill O’Reilly’s website was hacked because he publically scolded the hacktivists:

So is there a place for this in politics?  Or is it completely wrong.  Many argue that in Sarah Palin’s case, America still doesn’t know enough about her to make a determination as to whether she should be elected or not, and the hacktivists are working on our behalf.  I don’t care for Bill O’Reilly, but I wouldn’t want my site and all of my subscriber’s personal info to be hacked either.

So my question is this, How do the actions of hacktivists affect the campaigns?  For good?  For bad?  For information?  Are they sending the messages that match their intentions??  Tell me what you think.