Reply #24: I partially agree with you [View All]

[Time for change]

No, I dont believe that there haven't been plenty of women or minorities who would make good or even great presidents. The man I wrote about in this OP and the woman in my avatar are just two examples.

If I or anyone else believed that we should vote for a white man against a woman or a minority on the basis that he was a white man, and yet we were abhorred by the idea that someone would vote for a black man or a woman solely on the basis of race or gender, that would make us racist or sexist.

But you appear to be saying that two wrongs make a right. Because women and minorities have been denied high office in the past, we should vote for them now, even if they're running against a much better candidate, one who will do much better for the people of our country. You seem to me to be suggesting that we should not vote for such a white man simply because he is a white man.

I am saddened by the idea of having Obama or Clinton as the Democratic nominee because I believe that they are much too conservative for the conditions under which we now find ourselves. I believe that John Edwards would have been much better for our country -- all the people of our country, with the exception of the "Economic Royalists" who I referred to in the OP. And I do feel that it is wrong to vote for them on the basis of race or gender even though racism or sexism has prevented many of them from attaining high office in the past. The presidency of the United States is just too important a job for that.