Whoever wins the November elections in the United States, the next president be a member of a despised minority: if Obama, being black (okay, mulatto, but still he is considered black), if McCain, by then old, to 72 years who turns 29 in August, was one of the elderly presidents have been there.
Minorities "neglected? What about the civil rights movement of the sixties and the relevant law was enacted that year? And since when the venerable members of the elderly (in the United States call senior citizens, ie senior citizens, if we stick to the etymology of senior , senex comparative , Old) are a despised minority?
face it, at least in the media, the old do not exist. And if they appear, is only to post remedies for erectile dysfunction and other ailments of age. The sector in our time is drawing the youth, because somehow it has cornered the purchasing power and therefore more appealing is the target of marketing.
Age weighs in a world designed to be young. John McCain, aware of this phenomenon, described himself as "Neanderthal" in computing, since confessed that he is able even to use e-mail. Yes, apparently the technology is targeted at young people (and monopolized by them: Bill Gates founded Microsoft at age 19) and, leaving aside the fact that it has become the mark of our civilization, it would be doubtful that such a confessed computer illiterate McCain could be considered the champion of a country that boasts of signal new directions of technology.
Barack Obama, meanwhile, is a client of the Blackberry and, at age 47 that meets this August 4, would be one of the youngest presidents of the United States, where the seriousness of his skin color does not from reaching the White House. You really would be an impediment? That is what will play in this election: the demonstration that American society really believes that his African origin does not affect your ability to lead a country that is collapsing due to the disastrous policies of the current holder of the presidency (George W name . Bush, another computer illiterate 62-year-old, who wanted her out saying that he does know how to use the "Internets.")
McCain supporters, of course, claim that it is not necessary that the veteran Arizona senator personally attend to your Facebook page to lead the country, for that, they say, are the assistants. Moreover, note also that, for reasons of Security is not appropriate that he take care of your mail, mail or on paper. But at least it might prompt greater sensitivity toward people who passes online 16 hours a day and to avoid comments like that was two years ago in South Carolina when he said it was important to communicate with bloggers, "however painful she went. " Of course, this does not prevent you from having your own blog , probably because it has been a consultant has suggested (and some assistant is kept, of course ).
How comprehensive is Obama bloggers? He has not commented specifically on this, but also has your blog page and online community in mind can imagine (this is the Facebook ).
Anyway, things are outlined in black against old, in geeks against Neanderthals, in a minority against another. There is little that is at stake, as the result of this confrontation will affect the entire world. Maybe my cousin Ramiro is right and we should give chance to all to vote in that election.
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