So your reason for electing Obama is strictly because of your need to see a black man as President? If it were more important for voters to be looking at leadership experience, the need of a leader who works WITH an opposing party over using "politics of division", and coming up with constructive ideas that help build an economy over speeches, then perhaps the nation's economy would be in a much better place than when he FIRST took office? Perhaps Obama's approval rating would make his re-election a bit more certain than it is? Yet, that's what happens when the left wants to concentrate on "race" over qualified experience.
Your argument would make sense if you were looking at one election...a single data point
You lose the argument when you look at 70 years worth of elections and over 5000 candidates. You cannot claim that every one of those 5000 elections were because you were looking solely at experience. The evidence against you is overwhelming
Why is the left, like rightwinger, so
superficial in their thinking that all they can see is the color of a man's skin? Then you want to make accusations that conservatives are somehow "racist" because
you happen to focus on a man's ethnic background as their FIRST quality of importance with that individual? In fact this focus becomes SO important that you feel the need to create a thread, with the sole intent of isolating the discussion towards only ONE particular group of people, that happens to be based upon their skin color. Does that not perhaps, in itself, articulate a certain racist mindset? Why is the mere appearance of a person being black hold that much of a concern for you? What about someone who is Chinese, or Hispanic, or a woman, do you feel they are any less represented in this country? Are all you are able to see is in the form of black and white, rather than the fact that this country is the make up of whole array of people from various other nations? Yet, each of these other particular groups that make up Americans, whether they be oriential, Greek, Hispanic, or even women, are
above the shallow mindset surrounding the "make up" an individual's physical appearance, and are able to see a man or woman that has the simple political desire to represent their own district as a WHOLE.
If all you and the left desire to do is concentrate on "race" over an individual's
ability to perform a certain task based upon their qualifications, it's no wonder this nation is so screwed up that the Democrats find as their only resolve is to raise taxes. Because to the left, it has become unfortunately evident that it's more important we base our decisions on a person's color over the ability to perhaps . . . . oh shall we say, balance their own checkbook for one? I would desire that we have a particular ideological group, that is not as shallow and superficial as they project themselves out to be, nor demonstartes that through the association that individual represents (I'm referring here to the cheap loathsome "uncle tom" type comments from a group who claims themselves never to be seen as racist). Some of us find it more valuable to concentrate on an what an individual brings in the way of experience and potential to get involved to see a task through (a.k.a. show some leadership skills), no matter their physical appearance or weight. This is due to the fact, we have grown tired of seeing a clueless individual who doesn't know how to lead and solve problems, without the need to divide a nation and point the blame of responsibility to ANYONE other than himself. All because we have certain unfortunate group of people that can't see beyond the color of a man's skin, but would much rather vote on "appearance" over the shocking thought that this individual might be getting himself into an executive position that's
WAY over his head.
True equality is one whos nation is colorblind, and don't feel the need to concentrate on one's appearance.
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