A Setback in Race Relations?

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It just occurred to me that the American people did not pick the first black president. Rather, they picked the first black president-elect.

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  1. bobvis11:09 PM

    It's worse than that.

    They actually picked a bunch of (mostly white, mostly male, I believe) electoral voters who they presume will vote for Barack Obama.

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  2. Bob Murphy11:54 PM

    Good call.

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  3. Silas Barta12:38 AM

    *mind blown*

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  4. gcallah12:04 PM

    I don't know... what I'm really concerned about right now is Warhammer powerleveling.

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  5. Anonymous12:27 PM

    ...and that electoral vote will be counted by a mostly white Congress and announced by *gasp* Dick Cheney as president of the Senate.

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  6. Wabulon5:22 PM

    And what, pray, is this new condensed spam weirdness??

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  7. gcallah11:43 PM

    It is condensed spam weirdness.

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