Obama won before and he was part black. Why would that be a problem now?
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s_s@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Trump was elected in 2016 because he got on twitter and was a birther dickhead.
Democrats ran Hillary and that was just a bridge too far for some Americans.
Democrats ran an old white man in 2020 and won.
2024 Democrats are running a black woman. Is that a bridge too far for Middle Amerikkka?
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 6 days ago
ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
But he’s not a woman.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Because it nurtured the racism in a LOT of people bringing it out in the open…which led to the rise often hat orange turd in the first place, who went from a reality tv star that nobody gave half a fuck about to spewing anti-Obama shit left and right solely based on race and because he got his fee-fees hurt at a WH correspondents dinner. Large parts of the repub base are still reeling in from “black president” 16 years ago that they can’t fathom “black woman president”
humana@lemmynsfw.com 6 days ago
Obama also is half white man. Kamala is not.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Nobody thought of Obama as half white.
humana@lemmynsfw.com 6 days ago
Everyone thinks of Kamala as non-white female
Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The leader of the KKK said he would vote for a black man over a white woman. Sexism has always trumped racism.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Running Hillary over Bernie was the dumbest thing ever in politics
BobGnarley@lemm.ee 6 days ago
alsmot like its all smoke and mirrors and they didn’t actually care who won, at the time. Now I think they get it but they did drop the ball, almost did this time trying to push biden.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 days ago
No they pushed Hilary because it was “her turn”. If they didn’t care then Sanders would have been the front runner easily.
Then it was Bidens turn, because he’s been a career politician his entire life and a VP. That’s how those people think about these things.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yup corruption straight up really
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Likewise running harris over michelle obama was a huge mistake.
They chose a cop over a definite win.
silasmariner@programming.dev 6 days ago
I never got the impression Michelle even wanted to run, and frankly I’m not impressed by the notion that the best candidate was a wife of a previous victor. Didn’t work out terribly well last time, and not actually particularly great credentials on their own
RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Terrible take, she’s not a politician and not interested.
Now Gretchen Whitmer might have been a better candidate had we been able to have a primary.
Willie@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Michelle Obama would have lost for sure. Remember, she’s the one who all the kiddos were blaming for having their school lunches ruined forever. And whenever kids ask why their school lunches suck today, they still get the response, “It was Michelle Obama’s fault”.
Obama was elected sixteen years ago, so anyone who was in school at all at that time can vote now, so we have nearly 20 years of voters who will hate this person for ruining their lunches when they were children. It would never work out and would have been a really poor choice to run her, since Dems typically require the younger vote.