Bill Clinton to Replace Hillary as New York Senator?

 According to this article there is a possible fire storm brewing that can only be doused by New York Governor David Paterson naming BIll Clinton as Hillary’s replacement if Mrs. Bill Clinton indeed becomes Secretary of State.

 But what I find most interesting about this article is not whether this is an option or whether Bill Clinton would be interested, but rather the reason why the authors of this piece think that Bill Clinton is the only possible successor to Hillary.

Those mentioned include six sitting members of the House of Representatives (three of each sex), Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Caroline Kennedy and her cousin Robert Kennedy Jr., Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown (an African American), and Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr. (who is Hispanic). In this no-win competition, Paterson has to balance claims of gender, race, ethnicity and geography. He could wind up gaining one grateful ally while alienating not only all the losers but also millions of members of the disparate constituencies that each represents.

 The authors are splitting Americans up into different groups based on race and sex, they are more worried about how the pick will look from a politically correct standpoint rather than choosing the most qualified candidate. So what is the author’s answer? Bring in the white guy.

 But seriously, this is what bothers me the most. (Aside from having to listen to both of the Clintons for the foreseeable future.) Here we have the perfect example of political correctness run amuck. There are 20 or so qualified people in office who are legitimate contenders to take over Hillary’s seat if she becomes Secretary of State, but instead of looking at who is the most qualified regardless of race or sex Democrats need to look at race and sex first. It is more important to them to make the politically correct choice than the correct choice. Maybe the correct choice would be a woman. Maybe the correct choice would be African American, or maybe the correct choice would be Hispanic. Or maybe the correct choice would be a white guy. But the reason that any of these people would be the correct choice would not be because of what they look like but because of what they believe. 

 If we can assume that all of these candidates have basically the same ideology than it makes sense to give the senate seat to the person with the most experience, regardless of sex or race. Why is it that Democrats look at people and immediately put them into categories? This is the party that is supposed to be color blind yet every decision they make seems to have some basis in race.

 America will never totally get past race until we stop seeing African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and whatever other hyphenated-Americans you can think of and just see Americans.