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I was just thinking - a couple threads popped up over the nature of the 1st president to be a miniority of some sort. Excluding the already minority of elitists that run our government

Who do you think it will be?

Black?
Hispanic?
Asian?
etc etc

Colin Powell, if he'll run. If not, maybe Obama?

Hilary Clinton- first woman pres

Hilary Clinton- first woman pres

Um ... women are not a minority. :)

Black?
Hispanic?
Asian?
etc etc
White. Since Bush has/had plans to make illegal immigrants legal as long as they have a job. Any job.

Colin Powell, if he'll run. If not, maybe Obama?


I like both of them :) so far ... I hope to see them run!

What does it matter? The content of his/her character should trump the color of his/her skin.

Um ... women are not a minority. :)
Literally true buddy but women have been *treated* like a disenfranchised minority group throughout history;) Thats why I brought up Mrs. C

Catboy.

White. Since Bush has/had plans to make illegal immigrants legal as long as they have a job. Any job.

I think your right.

I think Zhaids onto something there ... :rolleyes:

Um ... women are not a minority. :)

We may not be a minority in terms of population, but certainly are in terms of representation in government, executive levels of business, and upper levels of higher education. We also still fail to have equal pay for equal work.

So while not a minority by pure percentage points, we are still treated as such.

But I digress...

I would LOVE for Hillary to run, but she'll never get elected. This country is still not willing to elect a woman president, and probably not vice president either.

It saddens me greatly, but it's true.

Colin Powell, if he'll run. If not, maybe Obama?

All it would take would be one republican to rever to Obama as "osama" and he'd be done.

I was hoping that Bush would run this time with Condoleeza Rice as VP so he could position her for 2008.

I was hoping that Bush would run this time with Condoleeza Rice as VP so he could position her for 2008.

I'm not sure Condoleeza is electable. The administration has done a good job of trashing the reputations of it's key players, including Colin Powell & Condi.

Um ... women are not a minority. :)
Actually, women are a minority. They may be a majority numerically but not politically. They are a minority as the blacks were in South Africa during Apartheid. They out numbered the whites but were politically less powerful. That's not to say women are as powerless as the blacks in South Africa but they still have relatively less power. Look at the American political scene, if women were properly represented in Congress and the Senate demographically the majority of legistatures would not be men.

As far as the first minority president, Obama might make it but not by 2008; he'd need more political experience. Hillary would make a good president but considering how much the Right (Limbaugh et. al.) hate a woman who stands up for her convictions, they would burn her at the stake more than they did her husband.

On the Republican side, Mr. Powell has been touted for a long, long time as a possible minority candiate for the Oval Office.

As far as Obama-Osama, I can't back this up but I'm sure there was an Obama-Osama remark on talk radio during the Democratic Convention.

Abu Saedi took the words out of my mouth. The same thing for the british rulers in colonial India. I was reading about minorities in my sociology book yesterday. The opposite of a minority is a Dominiant group, not a majority.

Anyways, I second the Women vote.

We may not be a minority in terms of population, but certainly are in terms of representation in government, executive levels of business, and upper levels of higher education. We also still fail to have equal pay for equal work.

So while not a minority by pure percentage points, we are still treated as such.

But I digress...

I would LOVE for Hillary to run, but she'll never get elected. This country is still not willing to elect a woman president, and probably not vice president either.

It saddens me greatly, but it's true.

they're too afraid of world peace

FYI: the White House Project has a concise list of women in US government:

http://www.thewhitehouseproject.org/know_facts/snapshots_women.html