Posted on 12/17/2019 3:42:10 AM PST by Libloather
When Kamala Harris dropped out two weeks ago, it hit Cory Booker hard.
She may have been his rival in the race for the Democratic nomination, but her exit represented something bigger. If Harris — a friend of Booker’s and the only black woman in the race, who began her campaign with such promise — couldn’t make it to Iowa, what did it mean for him, a black man still in the fight but unable to qualify for the Democratic debate?
At the heart of Booker’s dilemma is a larger question about the Democratic Party and American politics: What if Barack Obama was not just the first, but the only person who is not a white man to occupy the White House for decades to come?
“That’s a very real fear,” said Bakari Sellers, a prominent South Carolina Democrat who supported Harris’ bid. It feels like the country has taken a giant step backwards, he said. “It’s hard to answer the question of, how did you go from Barack Obama to Donald Trump?”
Harris’ downfall, Booker’s struggles and Julián Castro’s single-digit polling have caused Democrats across the party, and especially people of color, to ask what’s led the party to this juncture, where all the frontrunners are white, and most of them are male and in their 70s. In July, Democrats had the most diverse debate stage in history. Five months later, all the participants are white except for Andrew Yang, who cleared the bar by a single percentage point in one poll on the final day to qualify.
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Well I’m a youngish white guy who never would have and never will vote for Condoleeza Rice because she is and has always been a certified swamp dweller. She’d CFR and and a globalist and never had me fooled. She might be an accomplished person with many admirable traits and a wonderful Christian testimony if one is to believe her life story as she tells it; but all that doesn’t change in terms of when the rubber meets the road she is the swamp for those with eyes to see.
Obama was never eligible.
He is not a natural born citizen.
It sends a message when he didn’t automatically inherit Harris’ supporters.
Insert picture of Nelson laughing here.
This is the legacy of Barry Hussein. He didn’t care that he absolutely spoiled the field for any minority candidates to come after - he took his half from the middle.
Thanks Barry!
You went to Donald Trump BECAUSE of Barack Obama
Yes, prejudice is every where now. Everybody in the USA is a hater of something. But if you hate anything you are not socially excepted and everyone hates you. This makes them prejudiced haters. Everyone we need to find it down. Agree to disagree with out hatred.
Racism permeates everything = The lazy&crazy always has a crutch
If Booger were as white as Nancy Pelosi i still wouldn’t think he is fit for office. He certainly wouldn’t be anymore qualified to be Presdient if he were as white as BillyBob or Lizzy .
How about addressing ELIGIBILITY of either/both of these 2 people-—Obama & Harris.???
Neither was/is eligible to be in the Oval Office.
Howard Dean & Nancy Pelosi rammed Obama thru with lies & chicanery. ONLY Obama’s mother was a USA citizen. His British subject Kenyan born FATHER was never a USA citizen. I also DO NOT believe that Obama was born on USA soil. I think he was born in Kenya. Grandma paid the price to keep that a secret.
The damage that Obama did for 8 years will take decades to reverse.
Meanwhile, he salted the ground & burned the crops for ANY dark skinned person to follow him into the Oval Office.
They don’t want equality; they want absolute power.”””
Affirmative Action writ large.
There was a time when she seemed to be a solid conservative. She didn’t show show her true colors until later.
it could not be that they were both idiotic, incompetent, and pretty damn stupid was why no one wanted to support their candidacy. Running around as Spartacus may have contributed, but no it could only be racism.
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