How long do you think it will be before the US has a black president?

[closeupready]

Also on a sidenote, how many black Republicans are running for Congressional seats in November?

I think we could have a black president maybe not in 2008 but by 2016, just because of lingering racist pockets which may take more time to die out. What do you think?

[SteppingRazor]

1. Not in my lifetime n/t

[RebelOne]

12. Nor mine.

[lindisfarne]

2. If a number of southern states were to secede, it might happen within

50 years.

[LostInAnomie]

3. To bluntly put it...

... there are going to have to be a lot of people die off. There are a lot of older people that will not change their minds when it comes to race. They will never vote for a black president and in fact would probably vote against them. They are just going to have to fade away.

So 20 to 30 years.

[ugarte]

4. If it's a black Republican, I hope not for a long time...

Skin color in itself is no reason to vote for someone.

[terrya]

5. 50 - 75 years

Seriously.

[napi21]

6. I think they could have had one in 2000 when people were asking

Powell to run and he said NO!

I realize he's a Pub, but he would have been a hell o a lot better than Shrub!!!!

[LynneSin]

7. If dems are smart - Barack Obama should be their VP

which means that Obama could be president sometime in 2016

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Given the right circumstances and candidate, it could happen any time

I am put in mind of the climate back when Colin Powell retired. He was courted by both parties. He was widely held in high esteem by the citizenry. Were Il Dunce not annointed and had Powell not chosen to be a Republican, I honestly think he could have done it. In fact, I can see him having beaten Il Dunce, under those earlier circumstances.

Black republicans runing for congress ...... the ones of which I'm aware are a pretty detestable bunch, not for their race, butfor their actual positions on issues.

[primative1]

9. It will only happen when ...

It will only happen when our society becomes so truly colorblind that we dont ask questions like this.

[bdamomma]

16. I love your answer, and I must admit that your response is quite correct.

[TerdlowSmedley]

10. In a perfect world? Two and a half,and his name would be Obama.

[Scoody Boo]

11. 2008 if it is Condi against Hillary...

the absoulte and unbridled hatred of Hillary in the South and Southwest and in huge chunks of the Midwest would give Condi a victory.

Even in the the south, the good ol' boys could more easily stomach a Black President in Condi than swallow the bile and hold their noses to vote for a white Hillary Clinton.

You have to live down here to really see the contempt that Hillary is seen with here.

[HamdenRice]

13. My guess is 50% chance of Black Prez between mid 2007 and mid 2008

That's because I believe the Democrats will take the House and Senate in 2006, and that Bush and Cheney will be impeached and removed. Under the 25th Amendment and the Nixon-Agnew precedent, Cheney will be removed first. Bush will be forced to appoint a replacement VP, almost certainly from his own party, but who is acceptable to a Democratic Congress, which will have veto power over the appointment. Then Bush will be impeached and removed, and the new VP will become president, as a caretaker till 2008 (like Gerry Ford).

That means Bush will have to choose a "clean" Republican as Cheney's and eventually his own, replacement. Given the current political and military circumstances, my guess is that Bush will be forced to appoint either McCain, who is seen as a "maverick," outside the core of the party of corruption, or Colin Powell, because he resigned from the administration, because he has been leaking his displeasure with the Bush gang, because he has the military credentials to deal with the Iraq mess, and because he can mollify the uniformed officers leadership of the military, which is practically in open revolt.

Seriously, I really do think there is about a 50/50 chance that Bush and Cheney will be replaced and that Powell will be the caretaker president till 2008.

[cpamomfromtexas]

14. As soon as a Bush marries one

[bdamomma]

15. about the same amount of time until they

have a woman President, not in my lifetime.

[Rosemary2205]

17. Condi actually has a chance.

For some odd reason even the NASCAR crowd down this way claims they'll vote for her.

[Robbie Michaels]

18. Soon

Whenever John Conyers decides to run or Obama backs away from the DLC Kool-Aid.