If Virginia could elect a black man governor in 1989, the country can elect [View All]

[Zynx]

a black man in 2008 as president. Obama will rise and fall on his own merits, message, and positions, not based on his race. The swing voters who always decide it at the end of the day are not racist. They are relatively well educated, largely suburban, moderate income and generally divorced from racial politics. They, more likely than not, will vote for an upending of the political system. They are disenchanted with the direction of the country along with 2/3 of America.

Those who will not vote for Obama due to his race are bigoted, Rush Limbaugh listening, low education, low income relics of the past who will not vote for Democrats anyway. They already see Democrats as "the black party" to quote a couple right-wing acquaintances of mine. They are hopeless and I am not even interested in cultivating their votes. They belong to the 19th century and will eventually be destroyed by the tides of history.

Those who maintain this country can't elect a black man president are cynical to a fault. This country has changed and changed a lot over the past four decades. This isn't your grandfather's electorate. I'm skeptical of Obama's ability to bring real change, but I am not skeptical of his ability to win votes. He can win this election, and, if nominated, likely will obliterate a moribund and lethargic Republican Party that desperately clings to the sad vestiges of the past. America can reform and from time to time it does, despite a history of seemingly intractable conservatism. Over time, the conservatives lose and they will lose this year.