No Black can be Vice-President
I am confident that in America today a black person can be elected President. I do not judge people by their skin color and I believe there are enough Americans like me to make that possible.
Back in April of 2006, the blog Barackface suggested that a Hillary-Obama ticket might be facing McCain in 2008. We will have to wait a bit to see if this turns out to be a prescient posting, but I thought about this and I came to the conclusion that a black person would have a better chance being elected President than showing up as a VP pick on any ticket where a white person is the Presidential hopeful. Here's why: at some point the suggestion will be made that there has to be some black madman out there who very likely will want to kill any whitey just so a black man (or woman) will get to be president. I know that Hillary has a great set of balls but I don't know if she has cojones big enough to ignore that threat, however slim it might be.
Related:
Talk Left,
24 Oct 2006,
A Hillary-Obama Ticket?One of the questions I have with a Hillary Clinton candidacy is which male contender would agree to run with her in the VP slot? For John Edwards, John Kerry, and most of the other names we know, they might perceive it as a step down to accept the VP slot after campaigning so hard for the Presidential nomination. But for Obama, who has limited experience in the national forum, it would be a step up. He'd probably jump at the chance.
Not everyone is excited at the prospect of Hillary/Obama winning this November:
Media Matters,
20 Dec 2006,
Morris "leaving the country" if Clinton-Obama ticket winsOn the December 18 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, guest host Karen Hanretty asked Fox News political analyst Dick Morris if he was "proposing a ticket of [Sen.] Hillary Clinton [D-NY], [Sen.] Barack Obama [D-IL]," for the Democratic presidential nomination, to which Morris replied: "I'm not proposing it. I'm leaving the country if this happens." Morris added, "I do not want Hillary Clinton controlling the FBI and the IRS and the CIA and the DEA." When co-host Alan Colmes later asked Morris if he was "really going to leave" should Clinton win, Morris said, "I hope not to have to make that choice."
The following study of the Democratic candidates is most excellent:
Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research,
A FIRST LOOK AT THE 2008 DEMOCRATS [PDF]a serious look at the messages and potential messengers vying for the hearts and minds of Democratic primary voters. What will be the catchphrase, the theme, the issue that wins? Here's a peek into the future.
