[Vision2020] A Paradox

[Tom Hansen]

Jeesh, Roger!

Your claim was:

"My point was that skin color should not have anything to do with it and 
that it should be dropped, but in this election it was a MAJOR [emphasis 
added] concederation and is part of the reason Obama receives such  
adulation."

I am certain that, yes, some people propbably did vote for Barack Obama 
because he is black (and some people probably voted for McCain because 
Sarah Palin is a hot looking brunette babe), but race was NOT a MAJOR 
consideration in his victory in November, as you stated.

As far as the context that you suggest . . .

Yes.  The election and subsequent inauguration of the United States' first 
African-American president should be celebrated and memorialized.  But to 
suggest that race was a major consideration that resulted in his victory 
is racist in its own implication.

Have you ever considered that attributes associated with the Republican 
presidential and vice-presidential candidates may have been major 
contributing factors in President Obama's victory?  Or don't you think 
that's possible?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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