Posted by
Michael Scotto on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:36:30 AM
When Is It Our Turn?
Somebody should have told me that I was betraying my people in 1984
when I voted for Reagan/Bush instead of for Mondale/Ferraro. How could
I betray my Italian roots? The only Italian-American ever to grace a
major party ticket and I missed my opportunity to vote purely based on
ethnicity. What was I thinking? How dare I vote on the issues!
I guess I should support Nancy Pelosi too.
Life would be so easy of we all just voted for the people who looked the most like us.
Forgive me, Rudy, I supported Duncan Hunter in the primaries!
Into
the 1980s, Italian was the third most spoken language in the US (behind
English and Spanish). Italian-Americans have succeeded in business,
sports, music, art, academia and literature. Enrico Fermi won the Nobel
Prize for Physics and was instrumental in the Manhattan Project... yet
no Italian-American has come close to the White House.
It's a conspiracy, I say!