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TeamPooka

(24,221 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:09 AM Sep 2012

Speaking as a middle aged white man I may never vote for another one of me for POTUS again...

Clinton, Granholm, Castro, Booker, etc....
There's a deep bench coming up.
Biden is the only white man I would even consider voting for after 2012.

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Speaking as a middle aged white man I may never vote for another one of me for POTUS again... (Original Post) TeamPooka Sep 2012 OP
Minus Granholm ... she was born in Canada. Drunken Irishman Sep 2012 #1
curses! TeamPooka Sep 2012 #4
This middle-aged white guy has long thought that was the *least fit* demographic to be President villager Sep 2012 #2
Try to judge people by the contact of their character, Nye Bevan Sep 2012 #7
...which is precisely what led me to that conclusion. villager Sep 2012 #12
If Hillary doesn't run dsc Sep 2012 #3
Ted is going to be 75 then TeamPooka Sep 2012 #10
The proper thing to do is to pay no attention to "race". bemildred Sep 2012 #5
I will never vote or not vote for someone based on the color of their skin cali Sep 2012 #6
I like the others and hate to be Shankapotomus Sep 2012 #8
Same with me madokie Sep 2012 #9
Sad that people need to quantify their election choice by the color of their skin or gender BoWanZi Sep 2012 #11
 

villager

(26,001 posts)
2. This middle-aged white guy has long thought that was the *least fit* demographic to be President
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:15 AM
Sep 2012

As in "long" thought.

dsc

(52,155 posts)
3. If Hillary doesn't run
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:27 AM
Sep 2012

we actually have a decent bench of white guys. Andrew Cuomo, Martin O'Malley, and Ted Strickland to name three.

TeamPooka

(24,221 posts)
10. Ted is going to be 75 then
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:33 AM
Sep 2012

we need younger blood in the WH from now on.
Although I would vote for Hillary no matter what age...

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
5. The proper thing to do is to pay no attention to "race".
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:53 AM
Sep 2012

It's bullshit anyway, talk about policy instead. I'll vote for anybody who supports progressive public policy.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
6. I will never vote or not vote for someone based on the color of their skin
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:42 AM
Sep 2012

or their ethnic background.

Martin O'Malley.

Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts)
8. I like the others and hate to be
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:28 AM
Sep 2012

down on Booker but when he flubbed his advocacy for the president, I started to have reservations. I can't say for sure but I think he has some kind of low brow "superhero" understanding of politics not unlike the typical lug heads I see here in NJ of the right wing persuasion. I could be wrong but I don't think he is the towering political intellect a lot of us would hope him to be.

Again, I could be wrong, and hope i am. I'll have hear more from him to either confirm this or retract my assessment.

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