makeitstop wrote:The argument that "America isn't ready for a ______ president" is such utter crap. I always wonder if it isn't a cover up for some people so they don't have to say "I am not ready for a _____ president".
Since I'm the one who stated that here, I feel like i have to speak up about it.
I want a Democrat who can win a damn election. i want someone who isn't going to get buffaloed by the media like John Kerry let himself be. I want someone who will look the likes of Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity in the eye and tell him how wrong he is, and why.
I want someone who is going to stand up and defend themselves when some slime outfit like the Swift Boat guys go on cable TV and start lying their asses off.
You
know it's coming.
If Obama is the nominee, he's got my vote with no reservation whatsoever. If Clinton is the nominee, same thing.
It's not me I'm worried about. I'll work to get the Dem nominee elected, just like I did for every middle-aged white guy that has been the nominee in the last 25 years, whether he's black, or a woman, or a freakin' potted palm.
But you have to admit that there are probably a lot of male voters who don't think a woman would be 'up to the job,' and there are a lot of white people who will look at Barack Obama and think he's not deserving of the office. It's not 'utter crap,' it's factorial.
It's a sad fact about this country. But you have to admit it's true.
Right, but the way I see it, someone who isn't going to black person, some "nice" suburban crazy lady from texas who is always so polite (but only to white people), that kind of person isn't going to be voting for a democrat anyway. Obama is NOT going to lose their vote.
Reilly Hannity and Limbaugh are going to make up all sorts of ridiculous crap up against whatever nominee runs. They are bullies. They called gore a liar when they had no basis for those claims, they called kerry a deserter and essentially accused him of being a pinko commie who wears women's underwear....the problem with Gore and Kerry was they didn't have the social intelligence to stand up for themselves. It's like this bully takes your glasses and calls you names, and you just stand there saying 'give me my glasses back!' That was the problem with Gore and Kerry.
I don't think 'Bama is going to let them get away with that. He has this wonderful way of being blunt and taking on his opposition while still seeming like a classy guy. He is charismatic and at the end of the day, I think he seems like a lot more of a guy you could relate to than Hillary who tells people whatever she thinks they want to hear, and Edwards who also seems corny and not particularly genuine (he played that lesbian thing with Cheney horribly).
Look, I'm not pretending like America is a color blind nation under a rainbow where we all hold hands and get along. But I think that the people who race is an issue for, are already commited republicans, and the states they live in are already red. If democrats are going to win this, they need to take the Kerry Gore states + take one of these states: Ohio, North Carolina, Colorado, Florida, Virginia.
At the end of the day, I think the dems are going to win this. I also feel Obama can take one of these states. And I actually feel he is most capable of doing that. A lot of men who couldn't vote for Kerry because he seemed so effeminate and bizarre----they can come to support Obama who was able to go on monday night football is someone with whom you can drink a beer.
