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The U.S. elections are coming soon and this article outlines why two potential great leaders won’t win.

What makes Democrats think that either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can win the election and become the next President of the United States? We’ve never even had a woman or a black person as a Vice President (remember how well Geraldine Ferraro did?) so why now does anyone think now the USA has become so liberal that they will elect one of these two? Maybe if they ran together they could win, but can you see Hillary accepting the job of VEEP? No matter how much people go on and on about wanting change, when they get into the privacy of the voting booth they will pull the lever for John McCain.

Why? Americans are wimps. Americans are scared of change. They would rather have an old fart, war hero running the country than risk elevating a woman or black person into that position. Once you open that door, then there’s no going back and most Americans want to go back. Back to the 1950’s where women stayed home and black people cleaned your houses for you. You don’t believe me? Turn on the radio in Texas or the South and you will find nothing but conservative talk shows hosts who hate Hillary with a passion. I don’t know what the poor woman ever did but try and give us universal health care, but she is hated. Why? Because she is a strong woman. As people in my family (all Republicans) would say, “She acts like a man.” This is considered the worst thing you can do. Remember the late, great Ann Richards? She was the best governor Texas ever had and who defeated her? George Bush II. Why? Because was a strong woman who didn’t take any shit from anybody. In other words, she “acted like a man.” So Texans (and Americans for that matter-thanks to Florida and Ralph Nader) elected George Bush II, who doesn’t act like a man. He acts like a woman. He’s a wimp and a pushover and whines his way through the day. Go figure. And look at John McCain’s wife. She is perfect. She is a Stepford. She is dressed for a cocktail party at all times. She is the next Laura Bush, whose make-up looks like a mask. I went to college with Laura Bush. She was in a good sorority. One that was particular known to have the most girls who smoke pot and put out, but I am not saying she did that. I look at her pictures in the SMU yearbook and she looks the same as now. I guess if you stay the same, you look the same. Good for her and she gotten the forthcoming GWB II library on the SMU campus in Dallas. Shame on Dallas. In the future you can go there and see where JFK was killed and then visit the Bush Library and see where GWB II killed thousands of Americans in Iraq.

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I love Bill Clinton. I don’t give a shit about Monica. I don’t care if McCain had his girlfriend either. I want Hillary to stop bobbing her head like hula doll on the dashboard of a car, and shape up! Hillary needs a better stylist. Get her on “What Not To Wear.” Her clothes get worse and worse. In an effort to look like every American woman, she is wearing polyester pantsuits with elastic waists. Shave your legs and put on a dress, Hillary. Be sexy for once. The image your stylist is giving you is something out of GREATER TUNA. You’re a good looking woman. Show it! There’s no reason you have to look like all the obese, badly dressed women in America. They aren’t going to vote for you anyway. Why are you even going after the good-old boy, trailer trash vote? They are going to vote for McCain because he’s a white man and because God has told them that women and blacks are inferior.

I remember when I was a kid and JFK was running for President and the minister at our church stood up and said that people in the congregation could not vote for a Catholic because the Pope would end up running the country. Thank God JFK won, but that’s the type of stuff you hear in Texas. They think if Obama wins then everyone running the government will be black and white people will start to be left out. You don’t believe me? That’s what people really think. The White House will have soul food on the menu. Whitney Houston will be Secretary of State. I grew up hearing that people (meaning blacks and women) should “stay in their place,” which means that they should stay at the back of the bus or stay at home. Even the church I grew up in in Texas, even now in 2008, does not allow a woman to speak during services. There are no women preachers. There are no women doing anything but being followers. Why because the men who run the church don’t want women to have leadership positions. That’s the way Southern religion works. Women are inferior. They’ll give you Bible scriptures saying so. Things like women should obey men. So why do you think anyone who won’t allow women to speak during services is going to vote for a woman to run the country.

There are still white churches and black churches in the South. Why? It’s not separate but equal there, it’s separate because God meant it to be that way. The white, straight men are God’s chosen people. I have an uncle who still will get up and leave a café if a white woman and black man come in together. It, as he says, “makes him sick.” And any woman who dates a black man is looked down upon. I’ve heard relatives say, “She certainly doesn’t think much of herself.” The South is still scared of black men. You think they don’t still believe that black men want to rape white women. You are fooling yourself if you think otherwise. You think I’m wrong. I invite you to come to Texas and listen for awhile. Oh, they may not say they are prejudice in public (thankfully there are civil rights laws), but when you get behind closed doors the term “nigger” is still used in the worst sort of way by white people. Not all white people. Sure there are some liberals, if you go to Austin, but get into the heart of the South and Texas and you’ll find nothing has changed except people are angrier. Poor white men are mad as hell about everything and mostly about blacks, Latinos, gays and women. You think any of them are going to vote for Hillary or Obama?

Let’s not even get into gays and Latinos. They are hated just as much as women and blacks, and probably more. Latinos are swimming across the border to take welfare or jobs away from white people, who are too proud to do the crappy jobs anyway. Leave a car parked long enough and a Mexican family will start living in it. Mexicans are good for one thing-their contribution of Tex-Mex cuisine. Gays are abominations in the eyes of God. Faggots will burn in hell. They have no use, except as hairdressers and decorators. I don’t need to go on about how much hate there is in the Southern United States and it is fueled by conservative talk show hosts and the churches. The thinking is that if you pray long enough, maybe God will restore the country to what it used to be-one of the most backward places on earth when it comes to justice for all. Sure, let’s get back to the way things used to be-where women are second class citizens, where blacks and Latinos are not even that good and gays are (even now) as bad as it gets. Let’s tie them all to a truck bummer and drag them to death. That’s the way justice works in the South. The Klan isn’t dead at all. Not long ago I saw a bus load of men in their white hoods outside their bus which had broken down on the way to Houston. It was after Labor Day, but they still had on white and wore it proudly.

Are there enough enlightened people in the United States that things can change? Sure, if you cut off anything but the East and West coasts. I sincerely hope that the youth, blacks, gays, Latinos, angry white women (who can remember what it was like not to have any rights) get behind either Hillary or Obama or anyone else the Democrats may nominate. Anything in this country that has moved civil rights forward has come from the Democrats. Anything that keeps us slaves to big business, war and inflation has come from the Republicans. Sure the Republicans can hang on to the mistaken idea that the United States is the greatest country in the world, but the rest of the world is pretty sick of us. I have spent part of the last years equally in New York, Texas and Europe. Bush II has made us the laughing stock of the world. However, the citizens of the Southern United States will not vote for change. A black man or a woman in the White House? It’s a nice dream, but the reality is that people are cowards and change takes courage. Both Hillary and Obama have courage, but it will take a lot of angry people to vote them in. The majority will go for John McCain, because he represents the past. The God awful, stinking, prejudiced past. And thanks again, Ralph Nader, for fucking things up more. I appreciate everything Hillary and Obama are doing, but it’s not enough. Hundreds of years of hate won’t be changed on election day. It’ll just be more of the same. I sincerely hope I am wrong.