• ALIENated said on Nov 08, 2008....

  
  The main qualifications for the president elect were just black and full of shit.
  
  

• lfbno7 said on Nov 09, 2008....

  Black is not a qualification for the presidency. If it were, there would have been more of them. Black used to be a disqualification for the presidency. This guy didn't win because he was black. He won because he speaks well, has a deep voice, the economy tanked under the Republicans, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan haven't come to conclusions. Being full of shit helps too, that is most definitely a huge qualification, and Obama knows how to sling it very well.

• ALIENated said on Nov 09, 2008....

  
  You are probably right about the black part. If he was running as a Republican,
  he would have been demonized and his past would have been exposed daily.
  (We will probably get to see that in 2012 because there will surely be a "black"
  Republican candidate.) But as a Democrat candidate, his color was a deciding 
  factor with most blacks. That has been pretty well established. And he fit the
  other main criteria--he is not Bush. Bush was soundly defeated. Too bad he 
  was not running. Too bad for the American people. Some won this election in 
  that their candidate beat the other candidate. However, all of America lost 
  because we had no good choice in the first place. We can only hope the next
  Ronald Reagan is out there somewhere. God help us all.
  
  

• lfbno7 said on Nov 10, 2008....

  I bet the next big push is for a woman president. Obama will run again, they all do. So it might be a Republican woman, and not Palin because she was so awkward in some of her interviews and that will make the party look for someone else. Not in Alaska. Maybe a woman in New York or California or the midwest. I don't know who's out there. Some senator or governor. Now is a great time to be a woman in national politics. It will be the "it's our turn" attitude. It's a pretty good bet that one of the next 2 or 3 presidents will be a woman. I bet the Republican party is conducting a search right now, and will probably drill them to make sure they can answer questions more gracefully and authoritatively than Palin. Train them better. Rehearse them. Palin wasn't properly rehearsed. It's all about being impressive on tv.

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