Sol,

You may be an ass, but it's not because of your post about electing a woman or black president. The Democratic National Committee still wants my money, but they weren't interested in hearing that the nation won't elect a candidate from the northeast or west coast or a woman or a black. In an election that's likely to be as close as the last two, you'd think the party would run a candidate that can pick up another 1% of the votes here and there. Edwards and Richardson are the candidates who could. Clinton and Obama, regardless of their qualifications, alienate far more than that just for being female and black. Doesn't matter that people ought not be that way; what matters in an election is that people really are that way.

Hardly anyone noticed that Gary Locke is Chinese when he ran for governor in WA. Think he'd a had a chance in the south?

Sg