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Thu Nov-06-08 02:30 PM
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Poll question: Did you think it would happen in your lifetime? |
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Be honest, if someone would have asked you the day after the 2004 election whether or not we would see a black president, what would your answer be?
Me? I think I could have said yes, but not a guy named Barack Hussein Obama and not four years after the 2004 election.
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:31 PM
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1. yes, but not in four years, and not someone named Barack or Obama |
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:32 PM
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2. Yes. Powell could have gotten the job had he wanted it. Or his wife let him go for it. |
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Blame Alma for discouraging him from running.
I guess she's the "Yoko" of this story...
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:35 PM
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4. If he can't make his own decisions I'm glad he didn't bother. |
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Geez--I give Powell WAY more credit than that.
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Captain Hilts
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:37 PM
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6. My firm was involved in exploratory polling for him. nt |
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:33 PM
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3. If you had asked me ten years ago I would have said yes, probably Colin Powell |
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:35 PM
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5. I thought that I'd live to see a woman president,... |
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...but not a black president. I expected my son to see a black president, maybe him!
He's 8, I'm 53. I hope I live to see a woman, but NOT Palin(comparison).
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:52 PM
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11. me too, not Palin either. |
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:38 PM
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7. I'd like to see this poll broken up by age of the participants. |
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I think that would be VERY revealing; which is not to say I want to stir up the generational crap that circed around here recently.
I just bet there'd be a very interesting divide.
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:38 PM
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...in the spring of 2004, when Obama was just about to win the primary for his Senate seat, I went to his website to see what all the fuss was about - he was getting noticed, and there was an article about him posted here on DU. I took one look at that famous photo of Barack and Michelle sitting in the grass with their girls around them, and I knew he'd run for president some day. I even printed that photo out and took it out into the living room for my Mom to see. She didn't live to see this day, but I told her, Mom, some day this man will run for president. She did get to see him at the 2004 convention, and of course, he blew us away.
Back then, I didn't think he'd run so soon - I thought maybe 2016 - and I didn't think he'd win. But I wanted him to try. :)
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:38 PM
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9. I Thought It Very Well Might Have Happened in the Next 40 Years |
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as long as the right candidate came along. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were not the right candidates. Colin Powell might have been. Obama was.
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:48 PM
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Racisim is never going to go away completely, but I just don't think it's a prevalent with the younger generation. They are friends with Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, gays & every other type. Familiarity with something goes a long way toward erasing fears of it.
Now, if you had asked if I think I will ever see pot legalized in my life, I don't think so. Most of the people my age that I know, ones who used to smoke pot everyday when they were young, don't think it should be legalized. I hope I'm wrong!
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Thu Nov-06-08 02:52 PM
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12. C) Wasn't sure. I am actually less hopeful of a progressive getting elected in my lifetime. |
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Thu Nov-06-08 03:16 PM
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Obama isn't a progressive. Neither's Clinton.
Feingold is.
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Thu Nov-06-08 03:18 PM
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14. Yeah. Obama's victory is bittersweet for me. We spanked the GOP and |
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broke a racial barrier that should have come down forever ago... but I still would have loved to have a progressive in the WH.
Ah, well. Who knows what the future will bring?
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