curveball

What to do, what to think. I've been thrown. The GOP party, that I am not a part of, chose a female as their vice presidential candidate. Or more particularly, John McCain (he who is scary) chose a woman as a vice presidential candidate. At first I thought, who's that? Then I thought, Obama should have picked Hillary. Seriously, I mean, 18 million people voted for her she was almost too obvious of a choice. Instead he picked experience for balance, okay. And now, the "experienced" half chose a novice just two years into her job as Alaskan governor.

Unfortunately I never warmed to Mrs. Clinton. I was glad for what she was doing for women in politics but she just didn't inspire me. I don't know if Obama has rallied the black community directly appealing to their brotherhood to see if they can back a brother and I don't know to what extent Hillary rallied the ladies and though it was historic that she ran almost to the bitter end, dang it I hate that she never made me believe. Because of all the roles I play in life, that of woman is one of the most important and heartfelt roles I play, the one that brings out the most firey defenses of it, that of the most intense internal questions. I want to see another woman run for president, I want to see yet another woman leading the State Department, winning mayoral elections, senate seats, even city council seats. And any woman that gets to the top of these places is a hero, honest. Don't tell me its easy to do such a thing. Some make it look very easy, some make it up there with such vigor that you become gender blind and that's cool too. So hats off to Hillary for doing so and all the other women like Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Albright, Rice, and now... Palin.

What every OTHER other president of the United States has been besides white, less we forget, is male. Freed slaves were given the right to vote in 1870. Women were given the right to vote in 1920. Mothereffing 50 years after slaves were. And correct me if I'm wrong but sistas were a part of the United States since the beginning, coming over on boats, birthing babies and whatnot, keeping the population going so uh, what the deuce? This election now has people who either had the right to vote either 138 years go or 88 years ago. Pretty dang exciting to think of where their predecessors were and where they are now.

And I mention this all on the scale of historic-ness (if that is a word). I'm not gonna argue if it was a stunt, who's the worse to be in a position with the least experience, who I'm gonna vote for, I'm just mentioning it for the purest sake of saying wow, a black man of mixed heritage, a white woman with five kids. You bet your darndest America woke the crap up and the debates over this woman and that man are so hot it makes me happy that we care so much about our country that this is one election we are not just gonna wait 'til it passes. We will participate, we will at least think about it.

And I leave you this quote from a wise man. "Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty. How will we know it's the future? Silver unitards, that can't be all?"

Welcome to the future.