Is barak obama black enough and is hilary clinton woman enough to be president?

Question

i have a debate tomorrow and i wanted to know some ideas. i don't know which side i am on yet.

The real topic was:
Barack Obama is sometimes considered as being guilty of insufficient blackness and Hillary Clinton is sometimes considered as not being feminie enough. In light of these concerns and other more important issues, who in your opinion is most likely to be our next president?

Answer 1

I think Barak Obama is black enough to win the black vote and not too black to win the white vote, especially when the alternative is Hillary.

Hillary cannot win because she is a woman and can't win the vote of those who will not vote for a woman under any circumstances. At the same time, she is not woman enough to get the vote of those who might consider a woman.

Answer 2

There is no such thing as "black" enough. The answer is yes. Black people can and do relate to Obama. He isn't pretentious. He doesn't look down on others less fortunate than he. He is everything that Clarence Thomas isn't. Only white reporters ask him that same non-question about being "black" enough... It is clear that they are not asking out of malice or to insult anyone. They just don't seem to understand that the average black person thinks the same as the average anyone else with regards to race. You never heard them ask, "Is Bill Clinton white enough for the white voters to support him?" That sounds just as weird as asking the same of Obama.

Answer 3

In school they are asking questions like this? You must have very ignorant teachers to ask this question. Black enough? Skin color or some racial stereotype. Woman enough? what does that mean? Women have all the same equipment that makes them equal. I am a Republican and would vote for neither. That does not mean that I would not vote for a black person or a woman.

Answer 4

Here is one idea--------------------------THIS WILL OPEN YOUR EYES by Paul Harvey
>
> Conveniently Forgotten Facts Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers
> decided that a fellow black panther named...Alex Rackley needed to die.
>
> Rackley was suspected of disloyalty.
>
> Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends
> tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water
> on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley. Panther member
> Warren Kimbo took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head.
>
> Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north
> of New Haven, Conn. Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what
> happened to these Black Panthers. In 1977, that's only eight years later,
> only one of the killers was still in jail.
>
> The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard
> and became good friends with none other than Al Gore. He later became an
> assistant dean at an Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that
> something?
> As a '60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head and a few
years
> later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Only
in
> America!
>
> Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water
> for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a
> California School Board.
>
> How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy?
>
> Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to
> the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to
> shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused
> Black
> Panthers during their trial.
>
> One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan
> Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a
> California School Board. He was head of the US Justice Department's Civil
> Rights Division, appointed by none other than Bill Clinton.
>
> O.K., so who was the other Panther defender?
>

> Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member?>
> Is this other Panther apologist CCow an assistant college dean?
>
> No, neither! The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law
student
> at Yale University at the time. She is now known as the "one of the
smartest
> woman in the world" (and may well become the next president of the United
> States). She is none other than the Democratic senator from the State of
> New York----our former First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton.
>
> And now, as Paul Harvey said; You know "the rest of the story".
>
> Just a reminder as she runs for President


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Answer 5

That is a raciest / sexist premises for a debate. If this subject was suggested by your teacher I suggest you point this out. On second thought only a fool would try to pollute a young persons mind with such a question and if you point this out you will get a failing grade

Answer 6

Well, Hil is definetly WOMAN enough. She is Clinton's wife and the people loved Clinton, black people did, I know! She may get more of the black vote than Barak. It is going to be interesting seeing them battle. Either way, I am just glad Bush wont be in office!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

I think the true question is what makes Obama any different than any other senator with only 2 years in office besides the fact that the media has fallen in love with him.

Answer 8

I don't think those are valid debate points. The Presidency should never be decided by voters considering only race and/or gender.

Answer 9

why when someone has some success do black people character assassinate their own saying they arent black enough??
thats stooooooopid.
The question is is barak ashamed to be black when he is told he isnt black enough?
When you want to move past racial issues and all be treated equal but some people want to segregate 'themselves' well how do they expect for people to move on when 'they' wont move on.

Answer 10

Race, nor gender, has no bearing on how I vote.

I support visionaries with great ideas. Barak is a great guy!