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Not when he was only elected because he was a minority. He was not experienced enough for the job. His policies are all crap and he is going to send this country to the crapper. I'm not saying McCain would have been any better, but I would have taken him over this puppet any day.
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It is a sign that there has been progress, but it does not really tell you how much.
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A coalition is formed when no party has enough seats to have an absolute majority. Thus, all parties are a minority, even the ones in government. They form a coalition which, together, provides a majority.
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I guess it matters not if one person only has the final decision to act ... Perhaps It should be that the final decision for any issue to be considered or applied ... is decided by a panel of many which represents each aspect of those who may be affected ... national and international ... Perhaps governments should all be run from a council similar to the structure of the United Nations, but all positions be occupied by ordinary people from 'all' classes, for a minimum wage ... similiar to a jury for a court, yet without the judge. Not by a handful of corrupt politicians who have millions yet only do the job to make more and gain notoriety. Peace
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It's sign of progress but it doesn't always mean that it's serious change. Doesn't the fact that we are still asking this in 2009/2008 mean that there hasn't been as much progress as there should have been? I'm assuming that in some countries him being Black wouldn't be an issue. In this country it seem sas if people were shocked and amazed...as well as fighting off racist so he could make it *in* the White House.
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not really to an extent it is but thats about it
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95% of blacks voted for Obama despite the fact that he wasn't qualified, admits to cocaine use, etc. Blacks (and Latinos) are MUCH more likely than whites to vote based upon skin color. What does this mean? As whites become a smaller percentage of the population racism in American politics is INCREASING but more blacks and Latinos win these racially motivated votes so it is heralded as "progress".
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Yes. Whether it's good or bad progress is up to the individual. But if you go from a society telling a minority they can't hold certain job positions for example, to letting them hold those positions, that is progress and change.
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Not necessarily. I see it as a sign of desperation. A lot of people thought, like I did, that McCain would have been 4 more years of Bush. I think that, despite that issue, had he picked someone other than Palin, he would have won. I think that if there had been a passable Republican candidate Obama would not have had a snowball's chance in Hell. The majority of the electoral college voted Obama in, not the majority of the US Citizens. I might be remembering it incorrectly but I think the percentage of citizens who voted for Obama was less than the percentage of electoral votes for Obama. People holler that whatever percentage of blacks voted for him. If that was true and the electoral college did not exist, there are not enough blacks, if every one of them voted for him, to elect Obama. America is still 70% or so white.
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Most of your answers refer to Obama, but we have had minorities in the government for years.(as far back as 1888) Shirley Chisholm ran for president in 1972. Having a black president is a sign of progress, but the fact that you have to ask and its taken this long, to me means its a slow moving progress. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0886866.html
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