Do you think the USA is ready for a woman as President?

Question

What about a Black President?

Or some other minority?

How about a non-Christian one?

Or a gay or lesbian?

Answer 1

Personally, as a woman, I don't think a woman could handle it. Women are much more emotional than men, and might get too personally involved in situations.
About the other four, I see no reason why not.

Answer 2

Woman, yes. More than ready. That is, I think a substantial majority of voters now exists who would vote for a woman. There are always some who would never do so, no matter who how good the candidate, but I think they are in the minority now.

Black male, definitely. However, in some respects, I think that might be a harder won victory than the election of a female president. Again, there are a lot of bigots--from all the races America represents--who would never vote for a black candidate. My sense is, it might be a tighter majority that would elect a black man, but a majority, still, with the right candidate.

Some other minority--hard to say. Hispanic, no, not with the current unresolved immigration issues in this country. I guess it would depend on which minority, how great the candidate, and the issues facing the nation, as always.

Non-Christian? No, probably not. I'm 'way past ready, personally, for religion to get the hell out of government, but it was only 2 years ago that Bush was re-elected by a slim majority, in the face of all that was being revealed about his spurious casus belli. Most of whom, I believe, were 'Christians,' voting for their candidate. The tide may be turning, slowly, but we're a long ways away, as a nation, from setting aside fundamentalist religious beliefs, even for the good of our country, and the world.

Gay or lesbian? No, not by a long shot. If ever. I mean, think about it. How divisive is the issue of gay marriage? When the elections were drawing close, when the **** should have been hitting the fan about Bush's lies about Iraq, when our troops were being hung out to dry without adequate numbers, protection, or support, when hundreds of thousands of people were dying as a foreseeable end result of our fearless leaders' cockups, what distraction did the Republicans seize upon to try and divert our national attention from those topics? Gay marriage. And,you know, but for Mark Foley giving the lie to such self-righteousness, they might have succeeded, so polarizing does that issue seem to be.

I'd love to see the day when sexual issues stay completely out of the political arena, and it doesn't matter what one's personal tastes might be so long as the job is done well, but that day is a long way off. For at least the near to long-distance future, the only way a homosexual candidate is ever going to be elected to the highest office in the land is if no one asks, and they don't tell.

Answer 3

As much as I'd like to see a woman president, it will never happen any more than any of the others you mention. Why? This is still a backwards country when it comes to electing its leaders, just barely out of the 19th century. There are too many good old boys (rednecks) and Conservative Christians who think that the only person qualified to be president is a rich, white male. So, no matter how qualified a person may be, if they aren't that, they won't get elected. As much as I think Hillary Clinton is probably the best-qualified of all possible candidates, she may as well forget about running - she's not a rich, white, male. Ridiculous isn't it? Other countries have had women leaders for years, but not this one!

Answer 4

woman or black, yes as soon as there is a female or black ready to be president. I'll vote for Condi Rice if she runs. Non Christian? I'm not so sure. Gay or Lesbian? I'm even more doubtful. I would if I thought the person was the best available, I'm just not sure the person would have a chance of winning. Do you have any specific candidates in mind? Theres a big difference between the abstract & the real.

Answer 5

i think of you're overlooking the certainty that the British have had a Queen and a woman PM, India has had numerous woman PM's, and the present and earlier French president have been incredibly women individuals. the international is definitely waiting for an American woman president. So is america. It in simple terms should not be Hillary, simply by fact she's no longer worth to be chief of the playground sandbox, no longer to point have The soccer.

Answer 6

To those that answer yes to this question I have a question, are you crazy? Look at this nation, particularly as viewed through the people that frequent this site. I can't believe you could visit the Yahoo answers site, look at the questions and answers from the various people, who seem to make a pretty solid representation of the U.S. on the whole, and still answer yes to this question! Do you not see how close we are to a civil war in this country right now? I have no doubt that far to large a number of people that frequent this site would commit what amounts to an act of war, against this nation, on their own belief that what they are doing is morally correct, legally justified, and completely patriotic. I mean that there are people of all the various political parties, even the supposedely peaceful, anti-war ones, that would do these things. In fact, I am fairly willing to bet that from the tone of some of the answers on here that there are those that would like to help the very people we are at war with right now as a nation. Can you imagine the chaos that would ensue if you added a political leader to this mix that would actually further divide the people of this nation? I don't care how liberal or conservative you think you are, anyone with intelligenc know that a gay or black or female leader would be just too controversial right now. On top of that, there are the numbers to deal with, we are still a nation that has a "white" majority, followed by a large hispanic population. So, odds are that the closest we would come to a "non white" president would be a catholic,hetero, male of some "white" and some "hispanic' heritage. The other groups you mention offer not one single candidate with a valid chance at election. As far as when we will be ready goes, stop pushing it, when this country is ready it will happen, why push your pet liberal project down our throats in the name of open -mindedness.

Answer 7

No, the US is not ready for a woman president and it's definately not ready for a homosexual president. A minority, maybe, but I doubt it. A non-christian one...well there have been many non-christian presidents.

A better question is: Is the US ready for the abortion ammendment to be repealed? Because I have a feeling it's going to happen soon!

Answer 8

Woman president: long ways to go

Black: 2008 - Obama

Other Minority - Fairly soon, within 50 years

Non-Christian: It could happen, but they would have to hide their religious preference as much as possible

Homosexual: 2084

Answer 9

I think the U.S. was ready for me to be president a long time ago.

Answer 10

As much as you might logically think the US is ready it is still much too conservative and racially biased as a whole to really accept the possibility,