[quote]Mikeyali wrote:
I love how he said that he was insulted, “As someone who survived the September 11th attacks.” You know, like he was actually in the twin towers.[/quote]
He could’ve been truthful and said “As someone who’s planned the rest of his career on exploiting 9/11 in every way possible, I’m pretty pissed at having you, sir, try to analyze and understand the event. No response other than blind panic, sheer hatred and the desire to let the government do whatever it wants to avenge it forever will do.”
I still believe that a large portion of America is not ready for a woman president or a black president, and that the proportion is sufficiently large to give the election to the white male opponent, pretty much regardless of his platform, unless he makes a colossal blunder a few days before the vote.
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I might agree in part - I don’t know if America is ready for a liberal woman as Commander in Chief.
I take polls with a grain of salt, but for what its worth, Pew Research had a poll in 2003 in which 92% of people said they would vote for a black president.
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
I take polls with a grain of salt, but for what its worth, Pew Research had a poll in 2003 in which 92% of people said they would vote for a black president.
Giving a pollster the “right answer” is quite different from voting in the privacy of a voting booth. Unless those polls were completely anonymous, which I doubt.
We had similar polls in Quebec, showing that an openly gay candidate was not an issue. The election tells a different story. While some of it could be attributed to the party’s policies (most people are rather tired of hearing the calls for separation from Canada), they lost some “bastion” counties where they had been reelected like clockwork since the creation of the party in the 70s. They were not in power before the election either, so they weren’t being “punished” by the people. The party actually in power at the time was rather unpopular and wasn’t making advances in popular support with any of their policies.
Of course, homosexuality pushes the envelope more than being female or black does, but I’m afraid that a lot of the past generation’s mentality about who can lead a country is still alive and kicking in our and younger generation. It’s just running in stealth mode, political correctness obliging.
Homophobia is alive and well and always will be. Are you kidding me? “Fucking faggot” has replaced “gaylord” as the worst insult at your kid’s playground.