Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:
Runningart2004 wrote:
You all really underestimate the power of racism and misogyny in this country.
Neither Booker or Warren or Harris would be a good choice because of that.
The largest voting block in the country is old white people. Old white people are still racist and misogynist.
Don’t mention Obama. Obama was whiter than Bill Clinton, and he had the gift of gab even better than Bill.
An old white man will run and win. Because he will be running against another old white man the question of age doesn’t matter.
Grandpa Joe for 2020!
Alan
look, I agree with some of your sentiments.
However, you can't write off the Obama phenomenon with "he was whiter than Bill Clinton." Obama looks (which is most important) completely black. He is married to a black woman. He went to his "black church." His name is Barack **Hussein** Obama. His Dad was from Kenya, and he was born in HI (or Kenya. Did that ever get settled?). You can't get more "other" or "different" than that, and can't get much more black than that.
He might actually be 1/2 white, and raised by whites, but in people's eyes, he is black. He is foreign. He might secretly be a muslim (in some people's minds). (not long after 9/11).
But he got elected. Twice. It is still a truly incredible to think that it happened.
So.....yes, this is hard to comprehend in light of Trump's election and popularity. But, it happened. We did elect a black man with a muslim name, from "some island in the pacific"/Africa, who attended a controversial black church. Twice. Really.
Yep, but it’s not 2008 or 2012 anymore.
I know some old white democrats who simply didn’t vote in those elections.
The Trump election has fanned those flames. Let’s not throw gas on a dying ember.
Never underestimate the racist misogynistic and utter uneducated and uninformed stupidity of “regular Americans”.
Alan