Hello Richard,   
      
   >MM>She is going to lead me to vote for Obama if she is the Republican   
   >MM>nominee.   
      
   RW>SHe would induce me to vote for Obama instead of   
   RW>libertarian were she the Republican nominee.   
      
   What's wrong with having a woman president?  We had a woman   
   governor of Louisiana.  Kathleen Blanco.  She beat Piyush Jindal   
   for the job.  The only politician ever to defeat the boy genius.   
      
   RW>You're probably closer to the pulse of REpublican politics   
   RW>than I am, but after choosing Palin as vp candidate in '08   
   RW>it seems to me the REpublicans with their tea party   
   RW>supporters might just be braindead enough to nominate her   
   RW>for the big job.  What do you think?   
      
   Women are taking over.  First it started in the home.  Then it   
   started in the office.  Then they moved on to city hall. And then   
   the mayor's office.  And then the state legislature. And then the   
   governorship.  And now in both houses of Congress, along with the   
   Cabinet, two of them having run for vice president (Democrat   
   Geraldine Ferraro and Republican Sarah Palin), and now they have   
   their sights squarely on the presidency, not being satisfied   
   with being second banana to anyone.   
      
   It is not just in this country that women are taking over.   
   England.  Argentina.  Brazil.  Philippines.  Thailand.  It   
   will happen here.  Sooner, rather than later.   
      
   And it is not just women who are taking over.  Gays and lesbians   
   are also doing the same.  As well as transgendered.  But there is   
   one group which will probably never win the presidency.  Probably   
   the one and only group Muslims (and Mormons) could beat.  Do you   
   know what group that is?  A candidate who is openly atheist does   
   not have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the presidency.   
   Even though the president himself/herself must rule as an atheist.   
      
   If you had a choice of voting between an openly gay candidate   
   and an openly atheist candidate, which candidate would you vote   
   for?  Which candidate do you think most folks would vote for?   
      
   --Lee   
      
      
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