On Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, the United States of America elected the first African American President, President-Elect Obama. Sarah Palin was the first VP candidate for the Republican party ticket. Does America need change, or is America already changing?..
With an economy on the down turn, and an angry society is sent to the polls in record numbers, inevitable change will happen. With promises of change for prosperity, change for better lives, change for the economy, change for a positive world view of America, change from the political missappropriations of funds, and change for the sake of change, the new President-elect of the United States of America has a plate full, if he wishes to deliver. So, can he do it? Are we to believe that somehow ALL previous leadership advisors and leaders were blinded or incapable of delivering these positive results? or has America, once again, been promised the world and handed and empty slate??..
Governor Sarah Palin was the first female Republican candidate for the White House. Rheteric from the media and questions surrounding her family life no doubt hurt the campaign, but more so the defiance and resistance to be a running mate, and more so a future runner. It has already been hypothesized that Sarah Palin will run for office in 2012, with a welcoming home party in Alaska ringing out chants of "2012! 2012!". If Sarah Palin was not able to run on a ticket with John McCain without controversy springing up at every point with differences in belief and policy, would she be able to handle the job as commander in chief? Are we to believe that her convictions and ability to fight will somehow bring about a consensus on multiple issues? Can a growling pit-bull with lipstick work along side a peaceful chewah-wah with different beliefs??..
Only time will tell, but the remaining question still stands. Should Women, African Americans, Politics and Leadership in the U.S.A. mix?
well, i have heard that a chewah-wah is the most vicious dog out there. it is more likely to attack and bite someone than any other dog. we just underate it because of its size.
and yes under represented people in Congress should mix. but lets try focusing on an individual's actions, beliefs, values , and exprience rather than their race, and gender.
If you're going by mental stability (ie - how likely are they to attack for no reason?) the Dachshund is actually beats out the Chihuahua, though they're a close second.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
Amen. let's talk actions, beliefs, values, and experience and leave race out of it. But then, we would not have our new president......no action other than running for president & state senate.....belief system questionable at most with Rev. Wright.....values don't exist allowing live children to be left to die....and 2 years of experience as a senator...1 1/2 of which were spent campaigning to be president.
hmmmmm.....should they mix? can we help it???? is America so remoursful of the past that we are reverse discriminatory?????.....hhmmmmm....
I blame the media for a lot of that, since I also think the media was the main reason why Clinton made it as far as she did (her being a Clinton also helped in that regard, seen as how she wasn't the only female running. Hell, one of the minor parties had a black woman running, so technically, neither of them are groundbreakers, they just got more attention). The media played it up for both of them.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
I highly doubt that Palin being female had little to do with the controversy surrounding her. It's more the fact that she's pushing dangerously close to crossing the line between church and state. She's also quite air-headed (for crying out loud, she equates governing a state that's 50-100 miles away from Russia to having foreign policy experience).
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
Let's talk about that line between church and state........nowhere in the constitution...let's check the bill of rights.......nope.....nowhere in the bill of rights...maybe the old Magna Carta.......Declaration of Independance....nope...nope......hmmmmm....
OH! I found it. It was acutally a letter writtin to a Baptist organization. Huh. Come to find out, Baptists were being persecuted in early America and an attempt was made to put a restriction on persicuting Baptists and other denominations in the great charter. Baptists would have none of that, because the inalianable right of worshipping God should not be mentioned in the great charter, for fear of Government thinking they can restrict or have any say at all. then one of our wonderful founding fathers wrote a letter in response to this Baptist organization, assuring them that an "eternal wall of seperation" would always exist between the church and state. Odd how an attempt to keep them seperate, in a stinkin letter, turnd out to be more important than our actual Constitution.
Air-headed, hmm....kindof like VP-elect Joe Biden thinking the depression was in the 1920's under the WRONG president....hmmm.....
Let's talk about that line between church and state
You're new here, so I'll forgive you of repeating the same tired rhetoric that has been clarified a hundred times on this site.
Shall I also point out that the letter to the Baptists from Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers. He also, for all intents and purposes, wrote the First Amendment. I think if anyone knew what was meant, it'd be him.
While the words "separation of church and state" are not in the Constitution, the idea (or "the spirit of the law") is still considered in the court system as a valid legal principle. You also won't find the words "right to privacy" nor "right to a fair trial," yet they are also valid legal principles, the former of which you make use of on a daily basis, even if you don't realize it.
Air-headed, hmm....kindof like VP-elect Joe Biden thinking the depression was in the 1920's under the WRONG president
Surely, you have worse dirt than that. While the Great Depression started in 1929, under Hoover, it was Roosevelt that was credited with pulling the nation out (and Hoover was actually blamed for causing the Depression). So yes, he made a mistake about the chain of events. However, it's not as if mistook it for, say Teddy Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, neither of whom even had anything to do with Depression.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge