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Wouldn't it be great to elect a terrific president?
http://www.dougwall.com ^ | 4/13/07 | Doug Wall

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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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; dougwall; mccain; obama; president

1 posted on 05/02/2008 5:33:00 AM PDT by SouthWall
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To: SouthWall

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.


2 posted on 05/02/2008 5:35:58 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: SouthWall
Wouldn't it be great to elect a terrific president?

It would sure be a change from the last 20 years, wouldn't it?

3 posted on 05/02/2008 5:45:19 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: RexBeach

I’d vote for you for being smart enough to vote for Mr. Watts.


4 posted on 05/02/2008 5:59:27 AM PDT by SouthWall (The new law shall If you are in this country illegally, you will never be eligible for citizenship.)
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To: RexBeach

HE would be a spectacular President. I would LOVE to vote for that guy!!!


5 posted on 05/02/2008 5:59:34 AM PDT by SMARTY ('At some point you get tired of swatting flies, and you have to go for the manure heap' Gen. LeMay)
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To: SouthWall

And I want a pony, too!


6 posted on 05/02/2008 5:59:52 AM PDT by MortMan (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton)
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To: MortMan

Well keep swimming around in horse poo. There’s got to be a pony in there somewhere.

(sorry, punch line from an old joke)


7 posted on 05/02/2008 6:09:19 AM PDT by SouthWall (The new law shall If you are in this country illegally, you will never be eligible for citizenship.)
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To: SouthWall

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.


8 posted on 05/02/2008 6:12:44 AM PDT by brownsfan (Algore makes P.T. Barnum look like a piker.)
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To: SouthWall

People voting for Obama is proof that liberalism is a suicidal form of mental illness.


9 posted on 05/02/2008 6:17:43 AM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (The republic is over kids!)
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To: brownsfan

Yeah. I hate to leave it this way for the grand children.
Sucks.


10 posted on 05/02/2008 6:32:50 AM PDT by SouthWall (The new law shall If you are in this country illegally, you will never be eligible for citizenship.)
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To: SouthWall

“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.


11 posted on 05/02/2008 8:56:52 AM PDT by Grunthor ( there's more than 100 billion barrels of untouched oil and gas in this country)
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To: RexBeach

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.


12 posted on 05/02/2008 8:06:19 PM PDT by kathsua (A woman can do anything a man can do and have babies besides.)
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To: SouthWall

“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?


13 posted on 05/02/2008 10:36:39 PM PDT by baa39
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To: SouthWall

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!


14 posted on 05/03/2008 2:43:33 AM PDT by Cyclops08
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