Wow, this hard to find a running mate, maybe the Democrats have less of a lock on anything this time around just the same. Regardless of party affiliation this is not encouraging for America period.
As divisive as the race & gender issues have been for determining the Democratic candidate, throwing a race ticket is almost as desperate as a suggested Obama/Clinton (race/gender) ticket ?
Please excuse my frustrations, but I want real international and domestic solutions, not a melting pot of a downtrodden minorities ticket postured to win an election with no substance after election or inauguration day ? This is about doing better across the board for Americans. Not making a statement of how far racial and/or gender equality has come in America, because to be honest, I've benefited from neither and I'm tired of hearing how much more sacrifice all of us have to make over something that happened too long ago for it to be a factor anymore. I'm living in the present and for the future, not over wrongs of a past that I am not guilty of perpetrating and made to "feel ashamed of in some warped aberration of a Rev. Wright preaching" over a similar/shared racial identification. Each of us competes the best way we can and in regards to race and gender, for every example of who was wronged, there are just as many success stories, where you could pay me/treat me like any one of those portrayed as the downtrodden factions and I wouldn't be insulted in the least. In a lot of those cases it very well would be an improvement over many's current situations. I don't want any of us to lose sight over this. It's not about the one/few that finishes the race as a representative of the group, but getttng as many of us (if not all of us) across the finish line in good shape to close out our lives from my perspective. That might be construed as communism, but a few decades back it was called the American dream. It's what any prior generation wants for the next that follows it. If we're all going to be $ 1/2 a trillion plus in debt, why should anyone suffer beyond what is uncontrollable by mankind ?