she didn't even know the world was round right? are we sure we want someone like that voting???

Give me a break. This over-enthusiastic approach to voting is dangerous. I'm so sick of hearing "Gasp! Everyone should vote!" No, everyone should NOT vote. Clearly, Sherri Shepard isn't passionate and/or knowledgable about politics, so she SHOULD NOT vote. Why do we continually encourage ignorant people to vote on IMPORTANT matters?

Good point!

This woman. :shakes head: Didn't she say that she didn't know the Earth was round because she was too busy raising her child?

Foxie makes a lot of sense. I don't always vote, either. When I don't understand or feel strongly enough about an issue, there doesn't seem to be a point. I've also forgotten about a local election or two in my 34 years.

And honestly, would you want someone with such poor excuses as hers helping to make important decisions? I say it's more sad that she doesn't pay attention to the issues and try to learn about them than that she hasn't voted.

i agree that it appears dangerous to allow people as brainally-challenged as sherri sheppard to vote... but as she's still an ignorant piece of sh*t, i am happy to have yet another opportunity to be shocked by her utter dumbness.

I always find it weird when people don't vote. Just about every person I know has at least SOME political viewpoints/opinions and sees the importance of getting out there and voting.

It's just odd to me that she's 41 and has NEVER voted.

But I can see Foxie's point about how it's probably better if people as ignorant as her DON'T vote.

I think encouraging ignorant people to vote also encourages them to educate themselves about the issues in order to form a better United States. Maybe that's just the idealistic college student in me.

But, I do think Sherri Shepherd is a raging idiot.

I agree with Foxie!

I would have had a tiny bit more respect for her if she would have just admitted that she was too lazy...blaming it on not knowing the date is PATHETIC!

I also don't understand how people can not vote. We literally have control over our government. How can people complain about the way things turn out if they don't voice their opinion in the first place?

Anyone that is that stupid should refrain from voting.

I'm Australian, its compulsory to vote over here (or at least you have to turn up and collect a ballot paper). I've often thought we would get really different election results and campaigns if it wasn't.

It's frightening to me that a woman with a public forum in which to express her opinions can't educate herself enough to find out when election day is, let alone what the issues are. Everyone should have the right to vote, even uninformed people like Sherri. The tragedy is that she doesn't care enough to get informed.

I agree that trying to come up with an excuse was a bad idea. the truth was probably that she was too lazy, or that she felt her vote wouldn't really matter, or that she didn't care very much and there wasn't anyone that she felt passionate enough about to support. Any of those is better than the excuse that she gave.

Jillness - you hit the nail on the head. We have control over our government, and there are a lot of people that don't exercise that right. Maybe people are scared....like, "What if I vote for _____, and that person turns out to be awful?". I have spoken to people that I think are just scared of the responsibility.

I agree with most of you....she was probably just too damn lazy. Don't say you "didn't know the dates".

esk4, so true.

Wow. And this is the best they could get for The View? I'm glad I don't watch it.

I also don't think uninformed people should vote, but you'd think she could have at least come up with a better excuse.

As a career journalist, Barbara Walters should be more responsible.

If she did vote, I honestly believe she would vote for a fictional character like Caspar or Snow White.

She is so FREAKING STUPID that I am sooooo NOT surprised by this and I'm rather thankful that someone as ridiculously stupid as she is should not vote!

Wow, people, back off a little bit!

Consider the situation just a little bit more deeply - it's not like she was living in today's society and not voting. Things were vastly different for women in 1945, especially colored women!

I imagine few people were encouraging her to vote at the time. And on the heels of the Great Depression and WWII, she probably had other things on her mind, eh? And who knows what kind of pressures she might have had to face just trying to register to vote - America was still segregated at this time, and there's a good chance she would have been pressured to stay AWAY from voting.

So stop being so accusatory! She probably should have started voting later on in life, but go ahead and ask your parents how many times they voted from 18-41 and see how dedicated they were. I bet you'd be surprised.

Clarient, you sound like you are unfamiliar with the likes of Sherri Shepard. WWII or The Great Depression has nothing to do with why she has never ever voted or why she doesn't know the world is round...which she was too busy feeding her son to know!

P.S. she's in her 40's not 60's!!! LOL

Lmao @ Hotstuff, I wonder who Clarient was confusing her with?

Anyone Sherri is obviously a moron.

*Anyways lol.

This woman is stupid.

1985 was neon and cocaine - 1945 was when terms like 'colored' were still being used.

=P

vote if you care, if you don't care, WHY NOT?

Sherri Shepard did not vote because she is a moron. Plain and simple, no excuses. Is it a good thing she didn't vote? Can't say, I don't know her aside from the whacked out things she's said like she doesn't know if the earth is flat and that Jesus predates the Greeks and Buddha...perhaps it's best Sherry has never been in a voting booth (she might still be trapped in that first one from 1985).

But chastising her personally for not voting? No. She's in a growing group of Americans who cannot be bothered to do there civic duty to vote. At some point nationwide elections here in the US will either be eliminated altogether or will be made absolutely compulsory, in which case all eligible voters will either be at the polls or face a penalty probably financial. That simple.

Complaining is easy. Action is hard.

The view has really dumbed itself down with the new co-hosts and the minny Ann Coulter. Which is really surprising since Barbara Walters is so worldly. Do you think ABC is pandering to women with this show - that ABC thinks that women are just dumb so let's load up with dumb co-hosts.
Anyhow, this is why many educated women were against the right to vote during the suffrage movement in the USA, because they were afraid of the many uninformed women voting.
But sadly, this ignorance is rampant in our country - house else does George Bush get elected.

i don't think she can find any new way to embarrass herself

De acuerdo con Nancita.

Oh sherri sherri, why?? i was home for the elections in 2004 having turned 18 and I stood for hours int he boiling hot sun to register and woke up to go line up at 4am with my mother to vote. that one vote makes a difference!!!Love the shoutout to Zimbabwe:)

ask your parents how many times they voted from 18-41 and see how dedicated they were. I bet you'd be surprised.

My mom had a kid and was married by the time she was 18 and she remembered to vote. Voting does not take dedication but a little education.

As for me this will be the first time that I am able to vote in a presidential election (Im 20) and I wouldnt miss it for the world...the round world to be exact

my dad got drunk, fell down and twisted his ankle the night before the elections, he drove to the election centre 20km away voted and then went to the doctor to get his ankle bound. That's how much it meant to him!!! i honestly don't understand why you wouldn't want to vote if you are going to be affected by the policies put into place by these people in power.

I have a rule with my friends and family: if you didn't vote, I don't want to hear you complain because you didn't do anything to make a change. It is crazy to me to think that people do not vote and educate themselves about who they are voting for!

I must say that I agree with foxie on this one. How hard is it to look on a calendar or ask someone what day the election is held? How does she not hear people saying 'oh, I'm busy this afternoon, I have to go vote'? That just sounds like a load of BS. Sherri Shepherd should not be voting.

As I understand it, The View is where we collect our dumbest Americans for public ridicule.

She obviously doesn't care, that's the saddest thing. She didn't inform herself because she didn't want to. It's so bad to hear that so many women don't vote. Sadly, in Spain the main problem is that both women and men don't vote, it's not a matter of gender. On the other hand, there's been many celebrities encouraging women to vote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB1EjxYTiVw

I found this video of Jennifer Aniston that I specially like, but there's other examples.

Uhm... idiocy. She clearly hasn't watched TV, listened to the radio, or *gasp* read the newspaper in all that time either - or even kept her eyes open whilst driving down the street. It's quite impossible to not know when elections are. (And also, wouldn't her son have been off school for "Election Day"? Even then, it's not like you can't take kids to the polls....)

@ Clarient, "Colored" is a really outdated term when describing African Americans. Some would even call it outright offensive.

During the civil rights movement people were beaten, jailed, had their homes and families threatened, lost jobs and killed for attempteding to gain the right to vote. Knowing that history makes me feel absolutely obligated to vote. As for SS, saying that she is too "stupid" to vote is a bit judgemental. Her values and education may be a bit lacking, but the beauty of this country is that any old fool can vote for someone to represent them. We should be proud of that fact and work to keep people educated.

She's just ridiculous. I have no idea why she has not been fired yet.

She didn't vote out of laziness and ignorance, I'm sure. Certainly not because she didn't know when the elections were happening.

I'm not trying to defend her, but the reality is that, I think, something like almost half of all Americans that are eligible to vote don't.

Sherri's excuses are stupid, but she has the choice not to vote.

Sherri has proven the point men had when they objected to us getting the right to vote.

But she is like most entertainment personalities -uneducated and mouthy. It's time we stop given them so much talk and press time. I am tired of hearing their opinions on how I should live my life.

Maybe once people miss a few elections the right should be taken away. People are tortured and / or killed trying to vote to make their countries better. People like Sherri not be allowed to speak in public.

mikestyle,
"As I understand it, The View is where we collect our dumbest Americans for public ridicule."

Maybe that should be the show's new tagline? It has a nice ring to it...

yaliyah - I couldn't have said it better myself. One of the proudest days of my life was the the first time I voted.

It's her choice if she does not want to vote. She doesn't seem like she could make a smart decision anyway. What I want to know is how she has a great, well-paying job on a national TV show while the rest of us are working our butts off to pay the bills. Once again, the mainstream media and Hollywood are rewarding idiocy. I have hated her ever since she made the comment about the world being flat. What an a**hole!

It's her choice not to vote. If she's choosing to not vote because she "doesn't know the dates" and can't be bothered to figure them out, fine. But don't complain about politics if you don't even bother yourself to change them.

sherri shepherd also has said that "nothing came before christians" (doesn't she understand BC and AD!? i know those terms aren't used anymore, but come on!) and that the ancient greeks fed christians to lions. she seems like a nice person, but there just isn't too much going on up in her head.

I'm really bothered by the fact that she has never voted. As someone mentioned above, the right to vote for African-Americans was paid for in blood by many people (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and all the people who participated in the Freedom Summer 64 event). And Sherri can't be bothered to register and educate herself on the issues. Why is she on a show called the view, she clearly doesn't have one.

Baba Wawa screwed up. She should have picked Kathy Griffin to fill the spot instead of Sherri.

Although I am not surprised – since Sherri sits there practically silent throughout the entire show, with no opinions – I think its a poor choice for Babara on a show where they discuss hot button topics.
And call me crazy, but I kind of agree with Foxy up there - if shes not going to make an intelligent and informed choice on who to vote for, then I don't want her to vote. It's just sad that some Americans are either too scared, lazy, or "busy" not to care who we elect as our president.

The second comment, Foxie, you're right!!!
We don't want ignorant votes.
Especially this election.

It drives me crazy when people voice their opinion on political issues but don't actually vote.