Loretta Lynch - Good choice, bad optics?
My neighbor, Charlie, who claims to be a staunch liberal, thinks that Loretta Lynch is a good choice for Attorney General except for something that has recently been referred to as “optics.” Here is his argument:
Replacing a black male attorney general with a black female attorney general won't win any points with the millions of white males who have been going against their own interests and voting Republican.
A strongly disproportionate number of Obama's appointments have been women, minorities, or both.
His Supreme Court appointments were a Jewish woman and an Hispanic woman.
His first Secretary of State was Hillary Clinton.
Secretaries of the Interior include Hispanic Ken Salazar and Sally Jewell.
Secretaries of Labor include Hilda Solis and Thomas Perez.
Secretaries of Health and Human Services include Kathleen Sibelius and Sylvia Mathews Burwell.
The most prominent non-Hispanic white male in the administration may be the somewhat buffoonish Joe Biden.
Charlie, who has an advanced degree in psychology, says that it's highly unlikely that all or even most of Obama's picks are the best person available and that ignoring “optics” is hurting the Democratic Party.
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Cool story. 
and referring to Joe Biden as buffoonish is 
Joe Biden became an attorney in 1969, and was elected to the New Castle County council in 1970. Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. He was re-elected to the Senate six times, and was the fourth most senior senator at the time of his resignation. Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. His strong advocacy helped bring about U.S. military assistance and intervention during the Bosnian War. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991. He voted in favor of the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, but later proposed resolutions to alter U.S. strategy there. He has also served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties, and led creation of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and Violence Against Women Act. He chaired the Judiciary Committee during the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
gets criticized for NOT having diverse appointments AND it's bad optics when he does appoint women or "minorities", ignoring the fact that (for judgeships Forty-two per cent of his judgeships have gone to women (i.e., 52% have gone to men) and Thirty-six per cent of President Obama’s judges have been minorities (i.e., 64% have gone to "non-minorities"
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Further,
Does your Psychology advanced degreed friend Charlie (or you for that matter) recognize the (racial) double standard being applied here? President Obama appointments are not "the best person available" ... as if, the "best available person" standard has been a consideration/disqualifying point for other Presidential appointments, optics notwithstanding.
ETA: Okay, for the benefit of my DU stalkers, "
I) always make things about race."
Post racial, my azz. 
Does he know how to get on the intertubes? He needs an account so we can talk directly to the man! 
