So I’ve been keeping an occasionally straying eye on the Democratic Presidential race over in the US of A. If that, indeed, is what it’s called. Basically, the Democratic party will be electing someone to run for President, and right now, it’s down to Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards. What makes this one super interesting is the fact that the American people, or at least, the Democratic Americans, will now have to choose: a white woman, a black man, or a white man who really isn’t doing a very good job of keeping up with his counterparts in terms of popularity, prominence and general image.
See, before, I would say that the white man would be a shoo-in. I don’t think America is ready for a black man to be their President, nor are they ready to have a woman lead them into the many wars they so like to wage.
Of course, wanting to avoid those wars might be the very reason they vote Hilary – women may (generally) be pettier, sneakier and bitchier, but as mothers and the more compassionate species, they are also less likely to send thousands of sons and daughters into a foreign land wielding machine guns and what-not. Her hubby Bill, if he could only have kept his little man in his pants or at the very least didn’t get caught out shagging Miss Monica, was also among the smarter of the Presidents and no doubt would be a valuable asset – the cynic in me always suspected she stayed with him for a reason; though how ironic it would be for Bill to go back to the White House and be referred to as the First Gentleman while his wife goes around eliciting respectful “Yes, Mrs. President”s.
Anyway, the race is on and it’s pretty damn intense, but what brings it up a whole new level is a report I read in the newspaper today – blogs and the online community will influence this presidential race like never before. And it shows. All three candidates have MySpace pages, some have both MySpace and Facebook pages, and you only have to do a quick scroll-through to see the extent of campaigning that is being done online. You also quickly see who’s popular and who’s not with the online crowd, and – this is inevitable – who hired the better person for the job of maintaining their pages.
It’s all here: Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards. Obama gets my vote – he’s the youngest, the most outspoken, and statistically the least likely to get nominated even though he’s so damn popular, but I have a thing about seeing blacks rising up to conquer the white world. It’s also why I like Lewis Hamilton. Plus, it’ll be uber interesting to see how Obama runs his administration and he’s frickin’ smart – check out his university credentials!
