To ignore the race or gender issues inherent in Clinton, Richardson, or Obama's campaigns would be disingenuous. Maybe, just maybe, our national psyche needs a woman, or an Hispanic-American, or an African-American to run and win so that the nation might move past prejudices - if only to a small extent.
But will the majority of Americans then move further and ask these candidates how they would address our serious problems - and what they would have us do?
- the threat of religious extremism to our national security
- the threat to our lives, economy, and planet from global warming
- our increasingly dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources
- the threat to the viability of the middle class in the United States, due in part to the transfer of wealth to the top tier
- the decreasing economic vitality of the United States internationally
- the civil war in Iraq that we hastened- if not caused - and the concomitant enervation of our military
- the threats against our basic freedoms from international business and our own government
- affordable health care
And, as to the experience canard: is John Edwards really any more experienced than Obama? Was candidate George W. Bush any more experienced?
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