Today's best political quote:

[blacbird]

From David Brooks of the NY Times:

"My first thought on the running mate question is that to balance his ticket, Barack Obama should pick a really old white general. Therefore, he should pick Dwight Eisenhower. John McCain, on the other hand, needs to pick someone younger than himself. Therefore, he also should pick Dwight Eisenhower."

caw

[William Haskins]

was eisenhower really white, though?

[NikeeGoddess]

nearly transluscent white
http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC074774/eisenhower.jpg

[ColoradoGuy]

And from Kansas. Perfect.

[William Haskins]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08036/854713-51.stm

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/200802/20080205ho_genealogy_chart_edited_1_500.jpg
David J. Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower on their wedding day,
September 23, 1885. They are the parents of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Mrs. Eisenhower was rumored to have black ancestry.

[rugcat]

Goes to show, you can't be too careful.

[whistlelock]

he's still, like, 3/5's of a person or somethign like that right?

[NikeeGoddess]

and maybe the real first black president

sounds like the jackie robinson dilemma

[robeiae]

and maybe the real first black president

sounds like the jackie robinson dilemmaNope.

http://www.geocities.com/cureworks1/5blkpres.htm

[blacbird]

Nope.


Ty Cobb dilemma, maybe?

caw