President Obama? Will the U.S. elect a black man to the presidency?

It's impossible to deny the popularity of senator Barack Obama. He's been on a whirlwind book tour with his The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. A recent appearance at a book festival in Austin, Texas saw him selling a whopping 1,000 copies of said book, breaking a previous record set by President Bill Clinton. There has been a lot of talk about the possibility of Obama becoming a U.S. president, possibly the next president, with Obama himself saying he would consider a 2008 campaign.

In an article in the Washington Post, there is some speculation on whether or not he could make it in a presidential race. While I think the man should strike while he is clearly hot, I also do not think that this country would elect a black man to the presidency, and that is sad. Harold Ford Jr. couldn't even pull off a senate seat in the recent election in Tennessee, which would have made him the first black senator since the Reconstruction.

While I do not think Obama could successfully reclaim the presidency for the Democrats, I do think he would be the best candidate for vice president. I'd love to see a Clinton-Obama ticket on my ballot in 2008. And yes, I think the U.S. would elect a white woman president before a black man.

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Tennessee - where homophobia is thriving

According to an article in the Nashville Tennessean, an Associated Press exit poll showed that the marriage amendment had the strongest support among married women with children, small-town residents, weekly churchgoers and conservatives.

I feel so sorry for those children of those 'married women with children' as statistically a crop of them are going to be gay.

The same article also quotes the following sage:
Paula Donald, 41, said she voted Tuesday because she is against same-sex relationships.
"A lot of people don't realize that's damnation to their soul," said Donald, who voted in Lebanon.

Let's just for argument's sake say that this sage is correct...why does she care about the damnation of other people's souls? If people stopped getting up in other people's business things would be a lot better all around.

Other states with voters suffering from the Gladys Kravits syndrome...Idaho, South Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin. Colorado, South Dakota and Arizona were too close to call.

and now...off to find my girlfriend and see what we can do about destroying the sanctity of marriage...

file under: gay marriage backwards thinking Tennessee