And why do these cats keep leaving out Lenora Fulani and Shirley Chisholm?

Sen. Biden’s Foot-in-Mouth Disease? Or, just plain ole’ boyz bigotry?ASCENT Blog Daily thoughts, comments and news ....What we appreciate about Biden is that he says it, unabashedly - so we know where he stands. Horowitz toys with it. Perhaps he meant the “first” Black presidential candidate of “bright” caliber - but, what about Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton before him? And: why cats keep leaving out Lenora Fulani and Shirley Chisholm confounds us. So, in actuality, Obama isn’t the first. But, in some way, Biden is implying that age-old stereotype of the slick, wily, cunning and fast Black hustler, as if to say Obama is the “first” to pull it off. ...

Hillary not the first!

In her article called "Clinton’s Not the First" Pamela Gentry, BET News Posted Jan. 26, 2007, starts out by saying "I got an email the other day from a friend of mine who questioned the many references to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) as the “first woman” to make a bid for the White House. “That doesn’t sound right,” his said. I assured him that the reason it didn’t sound right is because it’s dead wrong..."

Then if you can see your way through some really bad typos, you'll read in this article that Democrat Shirley Chisholm and independent Lenora Fulani also ran for President. Ok, that's good.

Then Ms. Gentry ends the article by saying "Now we know who ran first. What’s really important is who’ll win first."

Maybe -- but in a winner-take-all two-party duopoly, we all lose! But that's exactly what independents are trying to change.