Does anyone think our country is better for having it's first African American nominated for the presidency?

Question

Yesterdays presidential nomination for Barrack Obama was historical and amazing and I think it sends a message that our country has changed. Affirmative action did not play a role in his nomination. Character, intelligence, hard-work and the American dream made all of this possible.

Answer 1

its about time for america to catch up with the rest of the world,

and america is getting browner so its nothing new  to see

biracial people on tv

WHY IS IT if your black + white = black

he's biracial

if he looked white would people still call him afraican american

Answer 2

Absolutely!

Answer 3

Our country would be better to elect the first African-American President.  That honor should not go to Barack Obama, however.  His policies and his plan for change is nothing new -- it's based on old, tired, tried-and-failed liberal/borderline socialist policies (and the sad thing is his supporters are too busy saying "Yes we can!" instead of looking closely at what he proposes and researching the past to see if his plans have been tried before and, if so, if they have worked -- yes, they have been tried before, and no, they didn't work).  Our first African-American President needs to be someone we can count on to exercise sound judgment and use his/her administration to improve the economy.  Higher taxes for anyone is a recipe for increased inflation and recession.  Negotiating with terrorists who want to kill us (and have no problem martyring themselves to do it) is a recipe for more innocent Americans getting killed.  We can do better.

Answer 4

I wouldn't question Sen. Obama's character, intelligence, or hard work.  However, that more than half the Democrats who voted felt that a freshman senator, elected in 2004, who's been campaining for the last 2 years, who formerly was a state legislator could possibly have the experience to lead the nation is puzzling.  He speaks well, but he lacks experience.  The real question is, has there ever been another presidential candidate who has had less governing experience than Sen. Obama?  If he were caucasian, would he have been given a "pass" by the media on his lack of national experience?

I think our country has been ready for any person of color to be nominated.  Race should be a non-issue.  But, just because someone is the "first" doesn't make them qualified.

Answer 5

No.  I think it would have been better for having a QUALIFIED African-American nominated, but that didn't happen.  And he's only 1/4 black anyway.

Answer 6

If he does become a president, Americans will soon get a very cold reality shower!

With the Chinese and the Indians emerging, this is not a time to be functioning on three cylinders only, so we'll see what happens.

I sure hope that America will eventually recover from it but there might be hard times coming.

Answer 7

Our country has changed, due to the stupidity of the small cynical minds from the south who couldn't see beyond tomorrow, bringing slaves into our country thinking it would never backfire!!! Now we've got millions of blacks multiplying like rabbits from nothing more than section 8 pay/ welfare/ food stamps, working in McDonalds and Burger King until they get a grant to go to college so they can jack up the price of real-estate and fu@# up the land my ancestors died for by adding to what people like the Rockefellers do in taking up all the good land as forest and preventing expansion by making laws after buying politicians! Now we've got all these complainers driving 'round in their shiny metal boxes sporting rap music and hate attitudes taward all white men just because of the wankers trying to get something for nothing many years ago. Can't ship 'em back, truth is they deserve to live here, but wish they could stay down south and crowd up those suckers who made the problem in the first place! Wish they could have their own prez and I could have mine.

Answer 8

And today is the anniversary of Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech.  We HAVE changed  and its time.  This dream is definitely coming to fruition and we are better, far better off for it.  

Answer 9

Why would our country be better because the Democrats nominated a Black person, NOT an African American--his father was born in Africa, not him--to run on their ticket for the presidency? He may be intelligent and perhaps hard-working, but he lacks character. THAT has played little part in his success. It was, indeed, historical, but it didn't make this country "better." In fact, his nomination points to the fact that this country was already "better" and, as a result, the Democrats, who invented and enforced Jim Crow for over a hundred years, nominated a Black man to run for President. His mere nomination, does nothing for the country, particularly since he cannot win.

Further, affirmative action DID play an indirect role in his gaining the nomination since he could not have gone to Harvard without it. No one can run for President these days without being extremely wealthy. Harvard, and, therefore, affirmative action, helped that become reality for Obama.

Answer 10

No I don't and that's not based on Race, this guy has No character, and is riding on affirmative action, he has held no job other than a government one and then not that long, he has no experience in anything and knows nothing of world politics and foreign affairs!