A group of women at work yesterday somehow found ourselves in a political discussion, specifically, "Is this country ready for a woman president or a black president?" Both questions made me twitch a little, but my twich worsened when one of my fellow lunchers piped up that in fact no, our country was NOT ready for a black president. She wasn't saying she personally wasn't ready, but that she didn't think the country as a whole was ready. I checked my watch to confirm that it was indeed 2006 (even though my watch doesn't have a calendar and in fact it's 2007).

Seriously, though?
Do we seriously consider candidates in terms of skin pigment and whether they have an inny or an outty?
Seriously.