A Remarkable Blow to White Male Supremacy in the Oval Office

With a woman on the Republican ticket and a person of color as Presidential candidate for the Democrats the old order of United States national politics is remarkably transformed. Women and nonwhites are competing with white men for the highest national office. It doesn't sound like much in the abstract but after more than two hundred years only white men have occupied the oval office or its equivalent.

Of course ethnic or sexual identity does not equal political identity. Obama seems progressive in some ways but not in others. The governor of Alaska remains a mystery to me but for the purposes of this article we can say that it is almost certain that either we will have a female Vice President or a Black President.

Women are a lot different today than they were in generations past. They have really taken the lead in many new sexually segregated areas of work and social endeavor. Obviously women are superseding men in broad areas of educational achievement. Many persons of color and women have a long struggle to achieve equity in other spheres of society such as politics and business. The white working class has the same challenge.
Of course a better integration of women and blacks into the upper echelons of the Executive cannot solve the problems of the multicultural and multinational worldwide working class.

Unfortunately all the actors in this play seem to play the same imperialist fiddle the white male Presidents have played. It would be the biggest surprise to find out otherwise.

It seems the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is not a crook which is quite a quality for a politician and a Republican to boot. Imagine, a Republican that isn't a crook !

I always thought that being the mother of children was an important qualifier for the White House. Sarah Palin is a mother of five. She is ready to lead.

As for John McCain we need to know, "How many diapers have you changed?" Think of it as a No President Left Behind evaluation question.

Praise be to all the gods that Senator Joe Lieberman was not chosen as VP. We need to have the Zionist bit loosened here in the United States, not the other way around. Those extremists who want military confrontations with just about every nation on earth have a very bad idea for their own security as well as everyone else's.

Diplomacy. What ever happened to diplomacy and mutual respect among nations?