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Originally Posted by Psycho Dad
The fact that arguably the most powerful person in the world is a person of color has the potential to impact our society in so many positive ways. Were I to think that he was unfit for the office, my vote would have been different.
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Yes. I would never have voted for Obama if he had demonstrated anything less than a top-notch intellect and critical thinker (DEFINITELY not if he had thought Africa was a country, or not known which countries were in NAFTA, for example... hmm). I was in favor of him AS A PERSON, an intellectual, a potential leader, first and foremost. I could never have endorsed a presidential candidate of any race, of any gender, without feeling satisfied with those categories. (Hence why I would never in my right mind have voted for someone like Palin--regardless of her gender.)
And then somewhere down the list of reasons for why I voted for him, I also thought that the fact that he is a person of color would have immense value to the particularly broken culture of the United States, as well as to the rest of the world. I also considered the potential impact of the plain fact of his face, his particular face, being plastered all over the TVs and newspapers of the world for at least the next four years. It speaks more clearly and loudly about what America is (and wants to be) more than any policy could have done. I don't see how anyone could have ignored that fact.