• silverwhisper said on May 15, 2007....

  in a word: no. i really don't think so. but then again, i am beginning to think that's a bad question. i don't think america was ready for the civil rights movement of the 60s but it was still way past due. i feel the same way about this question.
  
  ed

• queenparanoia said on May 15, 2007....

  since i'm not an ameican... does it matter???

• uniquely-ironic said on May 15, 2007....

  I'm more concerned about what this person thinks than the color of his skin or the sex parts they own.  I would not vote for someone for either of those reasons.
   

• TinSoldier said on May 15, 2007....

  Why not?
  
  I would vote for either a woman or a black person or a Mormon or a Jew or a Catholic or an Atheist or a homosexual or whatever, as long as their political views coincided with my own.
  
  Which is pretty unlikely, but still. It always kills me that the folks with whom I agree politically tend to be old white males.
  

• dailyachesandpains said on May 15, 2007....

  I am with Tin on this! 
   
  Daily

• mommyof2 said on May 16, 2007....

  What about a woman?????

• ALIENated said on May 16, 2007....

  I figure the first female and the first black president will both be Republicans. The
  Democrats always run candidates with some sort of agenda. We will have women
  and black presidents only after a while, after we easily accept them in other roles 
  like Speaker of the House, Mayor, Governor. At some point, we will stop looking 
  at the race or gender and just look at the politics, and whether they have the
  chutzpah to be president. Hillary has the chutzpah, but stupid politics. Obama 
  has some of the politics, but not the chutzpah. Neither have the experience.
  

• silverwhisper said on May 16, 2007....

  are you suggesting that republicans don't have agendas, alienated?
  
  ed

• czarxtian said on May 16, 2007....

  Black American presidents can be found only on Novels and Movies. Try watching 24... Maybe some are considering the idea of having a black president but it will never happen in the near future.

• lioneljay said on May 16, 2007....

  SW, haven't you received your copy of the latest Fox News Glossary. It's only an agenda when a liberal has ideas. When a conservative has ideas it's called The American Way!
  

• lioneljay said on May 16, 2007....

  I guess it's time to weigh in on the topic at hand. I believe that much of America is ready to accept a president who is not an aging white male. However, much of America is barely ready to accept that we're no longer in the 19th century so I have my doubts about whether a black person or a white woman is likely to be elected. I don't think it's a fluke that our political landscape has become more egregiously partisan in recent years, and it's not a fluke that so our Congress and the Presidency have been controlled by conservatives for a couple of decades now (with a few brief interludes in the Clinton years). Demographically and electorally, eastern liberals are losing their impact on national politics and that does not bode well for any candidate who is either black or female.

• fairytaleromance said on May 16, 2007....

  I just hope that America is ready for a competent president! (And that one can be persuaded to apply for the job, haha.)

• CalmDown said on May 16, 2007....

  Yes! but does he have to be flakey and wet behind the ears too?
   Surely, America can produce a formidable black candidate.
  

• blastfromthepast said on May 16, 2007....

  Hi, Tin!  I've missed you!  Glad to see that you're back!
   
  Who cares what color or gender a person is, as long as they are competent to do the job!  But lately, 'competence' hasn't been included as a prerequesite.  Look what's in office now.  Fairytale:  I agree that any competent person would have to be persuaded to apply for the job, but I doubt that he/she would have any desire to do so.

• CamDaMan20 said on May 16, 2007....

  Absolutely not.  But a "White FEMALE" w/ a "Black MALE" as President and Vice President, respectively.
  
  If your going to experiment, why not go all the way ?
  
  Cam.
  

• marysaaka said on May 16, 2007....

  All God childrens have wings, so let them land were we as a society throught voting place them, Good luck to both, Clinton and Obama.

• clocks said on May 16, 2007....

  It's a pity that at the end of the day it all boils down the color of one's skin.This whole pattern of thinking will never change it seems.As a race we are all in opposition to change,yea we will never be ready but it will happen one day.Be positive y'all.

• flytimes said on May 16, 2007....

  slightly changing the subject.. I would love to see a black swimming champion, Ive heard they can dance, but NOT swim.. back to the subject, with regards to that black gentlemen, surly hes half black so should be called mixed race and is not black OR white..!!? any way i agree that compitence should come before color F-T

• MsBradford07 said on May 16, 2007....

  Thank you for your comments.

• hunter_boyce_chandler said on May 16, 2007....

  I personally hoped Henry Ford Jr. would have run.  Not because I agree with all of his opinions, because I don't.  He is the only Black Democrat that even right wingers would vote for.

  Obama has no chance of winning because he is being played as window dressing.  It is a real shame because I think he would be a good president.  The majority of Americans by a slight margin are right wing types. So I think my party is going to screw it up again this year.

  By know we should have learned that elitest East Coast wealthy families (Kerry) do not really represent the Democratic Party.  Gore has proven himself to be a one issue looser.

  I have better hopes for Hillary.

  HBC

• mobil said on May 16, 2007....

  Conservatives make the best leaders, history proves this to be true beyond
  a shadow of a doubt. The American people recognize this and vote for
  conservative men generally.
   
  I agree with Alien, if a black man or any woman is to occupy the White
  House, they'll be conservatives. I for one, have no problem with a good
  leader of any race or sex, as long as they are conservative har har.

• CamDaMan20 said on May 16, 2007....

  I have no doubt that Obama would do as good or better than what we current got hornswaggled into as President. Well, hell, he would probably try to accomplish a lot that congress and the Senate would not allow him to, notwithstanding a Supreme Court being loaded slowly (one to go) w/ ultra right-winged Republican(s) (Sic)...
  
  At least Hillary ( already on a first named basis w/ most of America) will come w/ Bill and while I am sure she will want her own carvings on the pillars of the White House, having Bill and his known associates worldwide can not be looked upon as harmful, rather as an "extra" no other runner brings to the table such a world-wide
  recognition of former and current Power.
  
  Cam.
  

• MsBradford07 said on May 16, 2007....

  Queen: It doesn't matter.

• pete said on May 16, 2007....

  There is a first time for everything and no doubt we will have a black president someday,I just don't think today is that day.Obama seems to have been put out there to test the waters as he is the only viable black canidate who has ever aspired to the job(stop..... jesse and al are barely viable americans let alone canidates).But Obama is not the one,....yet.For most people I think he came out of the blue and more than likely he has no resonance. Three years in the public eye may not be enough to push the fence sitters,he may very well be a shoe-in in the next election however.That is very much a possibility,as,a republican will win this election,almost as sure as the sun rises tomorrow.That loopy c**t from Illi........Arka...........sorry,New York will never win.And she is the best chance the democrat/liberals have.

• czarxtian said on May 17, 2007....

  how about a black woman for president?!

• queenparanoia said on May 17, 2007....

  well we have a female president and its still the same with male presidents...

• czarxtian said on May 17, 2007....

  yeah right! like our very own president gloria macapagal arroyo. she did everything to be a president, cheats her way to presidency and is doing every thing she can to stay on her seat. gender is not an issue, trust us, filipinos...

• cotteralladams3 said on May 21, 2007....

  It is not about race.  A bigger issue has been illegal immigration and the Republican government has made the right decision about that and attached the right conditions to it.  Bilingual education is a huge issue for Hispanics.  Schools are more segregated than they were in the early seventies and the Republicans have passed policies against affirmative action, creating a 'shut-out society'.  Poverty and discrimination, including police brutality, will be huge issues.  By 2022, fifty percent of America's population will be non-Caucasian.

  So my answer is a double-entendre.  I do not care for Obama.  He is good on domestic or foreign issues.  He can't answer a question with straight talk.  I am not claiming to like John McCain.  I do not get these hard-right Republican types.  I also get tired of fake political correctness with no meaning, substance or purpose behind. 

  It satisfies college professors, fundraisers, representatives and the media.  It doesn't speak to the public.  I would not vote, if I were American, for Hillary Clinton because she was a woman or Barak Obama because he was Black.  Bill Clinton was about policy.  Sure, he was smart, ambitious, charismatic and could talk to a crowd.  Still, I think he was really elected on his platforms.  It is about performance, not race.  Having a certain figurehead doesn't make life better for anyone.  Deal with the real issues.  Apparently, Obama is not popular in the African-American community because he is not seen as relevant or in-touch.  Go figure.

• alivealivealive said on May 22, 2007....

  nope.  a black president would be muckraked beyond repair especially if he was a liberal.  look what they did to Bill Clinton, (impeachment).  the question has always struck me as odd.  Think about it...what it really says, is, can we trust a black person with something important.  Thats odd.  If you don't think we can trust black people yet, i feel sorry for your children and for everyone who's come in the path of your corrosiveness.  In any campaign, you have to find ways of swaying people, trying to attract them to something about the figurehead.  thats also a very uncomforting thought, that a black person would have to be pitched, would have to be sold, that we speak of it as if its something itself besides the politics the president would represent.  a presidents personality means no more than the cartilage between his cabinets policies and the people--the first black president will be a white man who's favorite advisor was black.  Two friends that want to pull off a grand social experiment.  
  
  
  just a few ideas 

• muckpar said on May 22, 2007....

  If Obama would come out with a concrete platform on the relevant issues, I would study it and if I agreed I would vote for him, I could care less which color or sex an individual is.  But unfortunately all he does is smile a lot, shake a lot of hands, and tells us we need change, really.

• cotteralladams3 said on May 23, 2007....

  I have to agree.  He is incredibly appealing but seems to have no substance in terms of policy.  What does he stand for?  He looks like he should be standing beside Oprah at a podium on a stage, clapping his hands as she announces a new hospital opening in an African country.  Why doesn't he do fundraising?

• hunter_boyce_chandler said on May 23, 2007....

  I lost my respect for Obama in a single second of video.  It was a staged piece where he was helping an elderly poor African-American woman put her groceries in the trunk of her car.

  The look on his face and his body language said something that the voice over narrative did not.  He was trying to show compassion but it came across as disdain.  He looked like he was worried he might catch something.

• lioneljay said on May 23, 2007....

  Hunter, I suspect that whatever you saw may have been discomfort but I'm guessing that it was caused by something other than disdain. Obama spent several years working among the poor black community in Chicago before he went to law school and everything I've read about that period of his life tells me that he fit in well and was extremely well liked by the people whom he served.

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