Reply #20: This is something ALL Democrats should have considered a long time ago.

[AndyA]

Racism isn't dead in this country.

This is an important year for the Dems to win back the White House and increase their numbers in Congress. We should have looked for a candidate that wouldn't have been controversial, but no...we had to pick the two most controversial people we could possibly come up with.

A female...strike one.

A female with the last name of Clinton...strike two.

A black man...strike three.

Making history isn't nearly as important to me as fixing this country. And I think our chances of that happening aren't as good today as they could have been.

I'm not suggesting anyone else specific, I'm just surprised that I still see posts from people dismayed over the fact that the Dem isn't going to get a fair chance in this country. Add anything controversial to that, as well as a little election fraud, and you've got a recipe for failure.

I hope Barack gets the White House, but I fear he has a lot of obstacles to overcome before that happens, and I'm not certain he'll be able to do it.

And yes, I understand that anyone the Dems nominate would be controversial...if there wasn't anything there, the GOP would create something, but we could have given them less to work with.