will racism or sexism be an issue in 08 elections?

[Jerry_111]

Do you think that racists and sexists will make a significant impact on the voting in the next election?

 

[Absinthe]

Probably not devastating, but significant, yes.

Really, this shit all boils down to who says they love Jesus more.

 

[Geogaddi]

I think it's pretty clear that Obama is an atheist/agnostic pretending to be Christian so that he stands a chance of getting elected.

 

[Absinthe]

I think it's clear for a lot of left-leaning politicians. The only way to be accepted by the majority of America is to profess theism.

People would sooner elect a Jew or a Muslim than an atheist. In their eyes, at least the first two got it kinda right.

 

[Jintor]

Yes.

 

[Stigmata]

Pretty much.

 

[delusional]

im sexist towards hillary clinton

 

[Krynn72]

I would sooner elect an atheist.

 

[FieryGoose]

im sexist towards hillary clinton

Thats cool, i guess she's a hottie...:naughty:

 

[Geogaddi]

She's so hot.....She's so hot she's makin' me sexist.......Bitch.

 

[highlander]

Shes so hot that even RJMC will vote for her.

 

[Mr-Fusion]

I hereby decree that Americans are weird.

I'm being racist.

 

[Robbo]

She's so hot.....She's so hot she's makin' me sexist.......Bitch.

Lol @ how quickly this went downhill and finally crashed into the gutter^^

 

[Remus]

So are they both going to be running for president? I'm confuseled .
And is Obama with the democrats?

 

[el Chi]

I think it's clear for a lot of left-leaning politicians. The only way to be accepted by the majority of America is to profess theism.

People would sooner elect a Jew or a Muslim than an atheist. In their eyes, at least the first two got it kinda right.

Jewish yes, but Muslim? D'ya reckon?
Hilary's people seemed to make quite a big deal about Obama being brought up a Muslim and that's within the same party - how underhanded do you think the Republicans would stoop to debunk an ex-Muslim, let alone a practising one?

I just loved that report of about seventeen repugnant Fox newscasters salivating over that morsel of information with just about the same level of objectivity apparent at Iran's holocaust inquest last year.

Granted, they tried to give it some slight deegree of credibility giving it a veneer of their outrage being about him having omitted the truth about something utterly irrelevant, but I don't buy that for a second - they were playing on people's misguided and bigotted distrust.
Ironically, the Republicans tried a similar thing with Bill Clinton claiming that they were horrified at his lack of honesty when really their main concern was to try and show him up in front of "decent" Americans with "decent" family values.

I would like to think that the same couldn't be said for sexism in British politics. We have, after all, had a female Prime Minister and there are numerous female MPs and occasional cabinet ministers (although not for more high-profile roles).

As for race, I'm not so sure. There aren't many MPs from ethnic minorities - only one black female MP (there were two from 1997 until 2005 when Oona King was ousted by that loathsome idiot George Galloway) and I'm afraid I'm not sure for males although I do know that whilst the number is higher, it's not all that high. I certainly don't think we'll see a black prime minister any time soon.

As for religion, I know Tony Blair is Church of England and his wife's a Catholic (oooh, the multiculturalism of it all) which is, I imagine, part of the reason he let "city academies" have their educational curriculum poisoned by businessmen with a religious agenda, as long as they stumped up the money to help run the school.
Gordon Brown, who's most likely to be our next PM, is Church of Scotland but David Cameron (leader of the main opposition party) is somewhat ambiguous.
"I believe in God and I try to get to church more than Christmas and Easter, but perhaps not as often as I should, but I don't feel I have a direct line."
It sounds very non-committal to me which does make me wonder how serious he is. Doesn't stop him being a dreadful person of course, just as being religious doesn't automatically make you a bad one.

 

[Polaris]

USA needs more atheism.

 

[CptStern]

stephen harper canada's PM is a practising christian ..that scares me: religious moral convictions will always influence his decisions, it's inescapable


the current US admin is influenced by the christian right so I dont see them not supporting a future candiadate especially after building so many inroads for the last 7 years or so

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

For the OP: Obama's middle name is Hussein, you do the math.