Beyond Obama's Beauty

It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first frontrunning freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.

We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender.

Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.

The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.

Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts.

Robert Kaplan

The fact is, despite what the pundits all say, that all three of the remaining "viable" candidates for President are on the far left. Come January next year, there will either be a fascist, a socialist, or a communist in the White House. Given the choice between a demonstrably insane old fascist, a triangulating female socialist, or a radical black Marxist, I choose none of the above.