Posted on 05/02/2008 5:32:09 AM PDT by SouthWall
Wouldn't it be great if we elected our first black president? Many white people will vote for Obama. A landslide of blacks (90%+) will vote for Obama, and if I were black I might too. But I don't think so. Liberals, Democrats, independent and a few Republicans will vote for Obama. Why, I don't know, and guessing is another article. I know black men who would be great as president, but not an extreme civil rights lawyer who does not have the courage to to remove himself from a church that damn America, or is lying about what he heard there. I left a congregation where a visiting reverend from a peace group gave a much milder version of the "It's America's fault. America is a horrible place.", sermon.
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I’d vote for JC Watts in a second. He’s a great guy and a smart one, too. He knows his own mind and likes people.
It would sure be a change from the last 20 years, wouldn't it?
I’d vote for you for being smart enough to vote for Mr. Watts.
HE would be a spectacular President. I would LOVE to vote for that guy!!!
And I want a pony, too!
Well keep swimming around in horse poo. There’s got to be a pony in there somewhere.
(sorry, punch line from an old joke)
Our election process is so badly broken, it’s nearly impossible for us to get a good president, let alone a terrific one.
Not many people would volunteer to the 24x7 scrutiny that candidates get FOR TWO YEARS. Our election cycle for president is two freakin’ years. Even if we got a GREAT president, he or she could only work for 2 years, and then would have to enter the re-election treadmill.
Then there is the American Idol style primary system. Americans aren’t looking for candidates who are good, or would be good for the country. Americans want candidates they like.
Add to that the pressures of fund raising, which leads to the bowing to special interests... etc. Just can’t happen.
I’m not sure what the fix would be, it’s complicated. Too many weasels trying to corrupt whatever mechanism is put in place to try to get qualified people.
People voting for Obama is proof that liberalism is a suicidal form of mental illness.
Yeah. I hate to leave it this way for the grand children.
Sucks.
“Wouldn’t it be great to elect a terrific president?”
Too bad there is no chance of that this year, just varying degrees of absolute crap.
Me too, although I would rather vote for Condi Rice. The black people who would be good presidents don’t seem to be interested in the office. Only the wind bags like Jesse Jackson, remember 1988, and Barack Obama.
“Wouldn’t it be great if we elected our first black president?”
Why? If we’re not a racist society, what difference does it make what color the president is, dem or republican?
Wouldn’t it be great if we got a really great President?
And wouldn’t it be great if he brought beer? Really great beer like Keystone!
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