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Electability
Jan. 7th, 2008 06:01 pmWho has it? Barack Obama? I'd like to think so, but I don't. Hillary Clinton? Maybe. John Edwards? I'll go with Yes.
I read somewhere recently that it's widely believed the country is more ready for a woman president than an African American, which is extremely irksome because none of this should matter. At all. And what else I just know will happen if Obama gets the nomination is the rumor that he's a muslim will float around, and even though it's untrue and shouldn't matter either, it will definitely swing votes away. I hope I'm wrong about this.
If the democrats nominate a candidate whom the country supposedly isn't ready for, then their best chance of winning is if the republicans nominate a religious nut like Mike Huckabee, which I don't think is going to happen. All this talk of changing Washington is total crap, and I don't really care which of the three major candidates gets in. I just want someone who will work toward getting us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and who will stop the supreme court from becoming any more anti-women than it already is.
So, what does one do in a case like this? I'm registered as unaffiliated, so in the primary I can take a ballot of either party. I think I'll take a republican ballot and vote for Huckabee. Unless someone convinces me that this is unethical or something.
What are you going to do?
I read somewhere recently that it's widely believed the country is more ready for a woman president than an African American, which is extremely irksome because none of this should matter. At all. And what else I just know will happen if Obama gets the nomination is the rumor that he's a muslim will float around, and even though it's untrue and shouldn't matter either, it will definitely swing votes away. I hope I'm wrong about this.
If the democrats nominate a candidate whom the country supposedly isn't ready for, then their best chance of winning is if the republicans nominate a religious nut like Mike Huckabee, which I don't think is going to happen. All this talk of changing Washington is total crap, and I don't really care which of the three major candidates gets in. I just want someone who will work toward getting us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and who will stop the supreme court from becoming any more anti-women than it already is.
So, what does one do in a case like this? I'm registered as unaffiliated, so in the primary I can take a ballot of either party. I think I'll take a republican ballot and vote for Huckabee. Unless someone convinces me that this is unethical or something.
What are you going to do?
