God loves a black woman president

I'm getting tired of the on-again-off-again debate about whether race or gender is more astonishing in the democratic primary. The only upside to it will be if the thrill of voting in a potentially "history making" election gets democrats out to vote.

Here are my arguments against:

• It's only historic because we're backwards. Blacks and women have been elected to leadership positions for years abroad. We're not forging new ground; we're (as usual) showing up to the party late, drunk, and announcing that the party can now begin. Utterly bloody heedless.
• It's irrelevant. If you're voting based on race or gender, you're a fucking nitwit. If I were hiring someone and the HR rep who's supposed to be researching the candidates came and said, "we've got these two candidates. One's Black and the other's a woman. Which one do you want?", I'd fire my HR rep on the spot. The press is the HR rep in this labored analogy. Anyway, point is, I'm not voting for McCain, despite being male and white. It's racist and insulting for the media to keep presuming that Blacks and women are tunnel-vision, single-issue voters.

Now what would really be an amazing historic turning point for the U.S. (though again not so much for the rest of the world) would be an avowed atheist getting the nod. And frankly, that's more and more important, since candidates are now making promises and policy based on religious doctrine. The debates on abortion, gay marriage, and even for the love of all that is good, education, are now being affected by religion.

And if it's frightening to some people that the president might not have naughty bits the same shape or color as their own, it should be catastrophically terror-inducing that he or she might make policy based on dicta handed down by an imaginary being in the sky.

By comparison with that, race or gender shouldn't matter a damn, but you notice we don't hear a lot about that.