Submitted by Colin Mincy, Dec 30, 2007 01:26

Before I'm called a racist or chauvenist, I'm an African-American Democrat who voted for HRC when she was re-elected to the Senate and think she's done a great job representing our state in NY.

However, she will never make it out of a general election. If the White House doesn't turn Democratic in 2008 this will have all been for naught. The "electability" factor is important, I'm sorry. If your candidate can't make it past the primary, than it's high tide you threw your support behind someone who can. Hillary Clinton is one of the most polarizing public officials in recent memory (and I'm not advocating that it's deserved or undeserved but it's true.) Why we would want to catapult her on the front stage to represent our party when half the country already despises her is *STUPID.*

On Obama...please. The politics of hope? Read the statements from his campaign and listen to his stump speeches the past 2 months. He's been as aggressive and negative as Clinton. His politics of hope had a shorter life than "compassionate conservatism." Those who think that this guy is going to ride in Washington and sustain a level of civility and peace is misguided. And those who think this guy will do it, and diminish the influence of lobbyists and big corporations with this same level of togetherness is deserving to be duped. Edwards is right...we need to fight the domestic issues that plague our country right here as home as aggressively as we've been tackling the "axis of evil."

Edwards is electable, AND above all has laid out specific plans and told the truth on how they would be funded and how much they'd cost. He's been more detailed and transparent on his policies and positions than Obama and Clinton. Once the mainstream media moves beyond the excitement of a first Black or first woman President, perhaps the majority of our country who get their impressions of candidates from blurbs of television and newspaper without doing much research can focus on a candidate equipped to take back the White House and change America as a result.

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