For me, one of the favorable things about Barack Obama is that he's black. Half black, but black nonetheless. I've heard a lot of hullabaloo -- especially in the media -- that we really ought not let race play a factor in this election. Geraldine Ferraro was lambasted for suggesting that Obama's race was to his advantage in beating Clinton. But I agreed with her, as far as I understood her comments correctly. His ethnicity makes me more inclined to vote for him. If we don't elect a black president this year, it will be a very, very long time before we ever elect a black president. Or a Chinese-American president, or a Jewish president, or a Mormon president and I could go on. The black cultural things about Obama make some people very nervous: his African-American church, for example, or the racially-charged thesis that his wife supposedly wrote at Princeton, or was it Yale? 1 There are way too many people, of all political parties, in this country who harbor biases t...
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Miss Suzie Petunia -- hallelujah! (I wish we were related, too.)
My darling husband -- I'm glad you asked. I think it's because when I was searching for a new profile pic, Isaac was playing with his purple ninja. Will our children be watching the prominent Ninja shows of the 00's? Just wondering.
(Barkley for Gov.)
Okay, actually, I really don't care, BUT I did spend the first 18 years of my life in that town where the Clippers lived in the shadow of the Lakers . . . and I've never been to Arizona. So there you go.