<<The point is there are highly qualified, experienced, educated, intelligent and gifted leaders that are black, white, Jewish, Latino, Asian etc over Obama.>>
That's probably a statement you could make about any President, with the possible exception of FDR. Harry Truman, minus the racially-inclusive verbiage, basically made it about himself. The fact is, your system did not deliver to the electorate a choice between the most qualified, experienced, etc. candidates, you had in fact a choice between Barry and McCain. Deal with it. Live with it.
<<If we never had Affirmative Action Barry never would have made it to the party. >>
No, he would have been getting coffee for Bill Clinton. You can't possibly prove what you just said, it's pure speculation. McCain and his ditzy little running mate were not exactly geniuses, as I'm sure you've realized by now. Obama seems to me like a pretty intelligent guy and regardless of what his detractors say, I like the way he speaks and handles himself in public. If it's all due to a teleprompter, then fine, let his colleagues get their own teleprompters and do better, but so far none of them seem to have been able to come up with such an easy fix. The
most that AA could have done for Obama was to bring him to the party, it sure as hell did not win him either the nomination or the election. (Although to be fair, it was Dubya who won him the election.) And I think AA should bring more people to the party, particularly the blacks, who were unfairly excluded from it for way too long by the same kind of racists who are now complaining that they are being let in now.
What gets people into the party anyway? (I'm using "party" in continuation of your metaphor, Kramer, not in reference to either the GOP or the Democrats, of course.) We've seen how family connections and money do it - - Bush1, Bush2, FDR, JFK. We've seen how good looks and Hollywood exposure do it - - Reagan, Ahhhnold. We've seen how dishonesty, lies and a willingness to abandon any ethical path for the sake of wealthy backers can do it - - Tricky Dick. So let's not pretend that the party is some kind of A-list event where only the finest and purest of the nation can gain admittance. People get in however they can, and basically what AA does is that it levels out the playing field somewhat as far as race is concerned.
<<If I need brain surgery I want the [onr who] graduated the top of her class, is board certified, and is the best of the best. >>
Yeah, welcome to the club. And lotsa luck in finding her. Whoever has the money will price her right out of your league and you'll be lucky to get the middle of the class. Or if you're one of the uninsured, more like the bottom of the class. If you lived in Canada, where they all get paid the same for doing the same kind of procedure, the best of the best is as likely to find herself working on an unemployed autoworker as on a multi-millionaire. Why not? Pays the same anyway.
<<I want the same for my president. >>
Well, back in the Real World, you seem to be doomed to an endless series of disappointments, then. It seems in over two hundred years, you have not even been able to elect a woman President, as every other industrialized nation has managed to do, let alone the <<gay, Latino, mass murderer>> you say you would be willing to accept. Seems like you are a little bit ahead of the pack on that one, Kramer.
<<I will be a little less picky about my garbage collector though. >>
What can I say? Isn't that America? Where any black, Puerto Rican, Mexican, or even native American Indian, can aspire to pick up the white man's garbage?
<<After all that is what we expect in our professional athletes!>>
Professional athletics are probably the only activity in America to have achieved a true meritocracy, although even there you have to wonder about sports such as ice hockey, which require such large investments in equipment and rink time from such an early age.
