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Dorian Gray
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
 
2007-10-11, 22:32

Let's be blunt here. Every US president in history has been an old white guy. Have the factors accounting for that depressing fact subsided in the last few years? I think not. Sex and skin colour condemn Obama, Clinton and Keyes to far harsher judgement than the rest of them, who mostly look like bit-actors contesting a role as US president in a Hollywood blockbuster. By all accounts the three people I just mentioned are phenomenally talented (if also annoying and alarming in their various ways), but I have little confidence in any of them being given a fair shake.

The election is also so distant at this stage that it's a safe bet that anyone leading now will be languishing second-from-last come November 2008. So that's another reason to bet against Clinton.

I didn't vote in the poll, of course.

… engrossed in such factional acts as dreaming different dreams.
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