Is America Ready to Elect a Mixed Race President?

[sheffield]He ain't all the way black[/sheffield]

 

One group of the KKK has already promised to do it. I'd like to think they'd never have a chance, but it likely won't be because of lack of effort.

 

I'll look for it, but Dave Chappelle, like him or not, said pretty much the same thing. He said he wouldn't mind being the president, but not the first president because that guy will be killed immediately. He said the best insurance would be to have a Mexican vice president because one shot and the border will open up.

The same thing, so to speak, goes for a white president with a black vice president. I know he's telling it for the laughs, but there's quite a bit of it that makes complete sense to me. I just don't think, as a society, we're as open to change as we'd like to think. Someday, I hope, we'll get there. But I just don't see it now.


EDIT: Here's the Chappelle clip:

(0:56).

 

First, Sportsy, you're off topic.

Second, you're riding your topic like oop humping away on all things Pittsburghian.

BUT...you may have a point. A Hillary/Huckaby choice would make me insane. Bush to Clinton to Bush to Clinton is what really turns me off, I claim; but there's no doubt that Hillary offends me viscerally.

We have a pretty good Governor of Washington, no trouble voting for her, but then that's not the presidency. So you may be onto something. If I could come up with one good current woman Presidential candidate, I would pooh-pooh you. But I can't.

 

I think it's a tough question simply because of the way we elect people in this country. Would Obama win a straight up popular vote with all eligible voters voting? I don't think so. But I think he can win the electoral college, especially if he continues to increase turnout the way he's been doing in the primaries. There might be an undercurrent of racism that still exists in this country -- and if you look at all the nooses that have popped up this year everywhere from Alabama to Maryland, you could certainly argue that's the case -- but will people go to the polls specifically to vote against Obama? I don't know that they will. And I think people will turn out to vote FOR him if he gets the nomination. A lot of conservatives like him because he's not really in favor of gay marriage, he goes to church, he's married to his first wife, he talks like a preacher, and a lot of Latino voters are upset with the GOP about immigration this year. If you get conservative independents, blacks and Latino voters to go your way, doesn't matter how badly Obama loses Texas, Tennesee, Mississippi, Wyoming, Georgia, Idaho and Alabama by. He's going to pick up the right states to win.

 

I had my doubts earlier this year and that, sadly, was why I was prepared to go with the scandal-vetted Hillary.

Now, I'm going to go for it and hope that my fellow Americans will look beyond just skin color. I have faith. As for those lurking, I do not think they number enough to sway the general election.

 

I think so. Six months ago, I would have said no. But seeing how well Obama is doing in lilly-white states made me change my mind. Plus, I live in a state that came damn close to making David Duke governor 16 years ago, and we just elected a 37-year-old Indian-American as governor. (And Bobby Jindal reminds me a lot of Barack Obama...a super-smart youngish guy, who is running an inclusive campaign based on changing the status quo)

 

Obama got the SS detail earlier than any candidate ever has, earlier than the rest of them did. I think that speaks to the underbelly of American society.

 

Your condescension is so cute.

 

The individuals and groups to whom you refer are more like a cancerous mole on the underbelly of American society. There just aren't enough of 'em to constitute an entire belly.

 

Well, technically speaking, Hillary had it long before Obama ever did.

But I think I remember reading that they both got beefed-up protection right around the same time, and it was very early.