Whatever one thinks of Obama, it says something positive about our country that we actually managed to twice vote for an African-American man for president. More than that, I don't think that anyone should doubt that we'd be ready to elect a woman president, too. I'm not saying the playing field is level and the country, or at least enough of it, is race- and gender- blind for these things, just that 20 years ago I would've put both in the near-impossible category.
