There is only one Biden in the senate, so we should definitely appoint Beau to take his fathers seat, because we need more Biden's in the senate....If I hear another talking head decry the lack of blacks in the senate, I will...I will turn the channel.
Politics is not business or Football. There is no autocracy or old boys club making picks from on high. There are only voters, of literally thousands of different stripes, who choose of their own free will.
The fact that Obama is black, should have no bearing on who fills his seat. In 2004 Obama walked the streets of Southern Illinois for months, convincing voters to choose him as their next senator, which they did of their own free will.
I realize the significance, but the best way to get more blacks in statewide office is to groom (or better yet let them groom themselves) more black candidates NOT black appointments.
