All of our Presidents have been Christian, white, male
and straight (or in the closet). So vote here for the
first non-Christian (Lieberman?), non-white, non-male
(Hillary being the obvious choice), non-straight President.
And when will they be elected?
There’ve already been non-Christian (Jefferson) and non-straight (Buchanan) presidents.
As for non-white, Colin Powell is a definite possibility.
If you’re looking for ALL the qualifications in one, this is gonna be a tough one!
So, we need a lesbian hindu or something? Or Indian (feather)?
I can’t come up with any examples.
Seriously: I realise that Jesse Jackson is probably never going to be president. But there have to be more influencial black people like him. Colin Powell was mentioned. Are there more black guys (or girls, of course) waiting behind the curtain?
If you go by the one-drop rule, Warren Harding was black.
I heard a comment once that someone in the late 1800’s said for the first 50 years, America did not have a single christian president. I guess it depends on your definition. Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists, and many made a strong distinction between that and being a “Christian”. Jefferson in particular put a fine point on it. That said, from all outward appearances all those presidents had some religious belief or notion based on the bible.
Hillary is a possibility for the female one. Four years from now, having experience as a senator. Or eight.
Colin Powell’s name was bantied around, but I don’t know if he could swing as much public support now.
I and numerous of my friends & aquaintences believe that Chelsea Clinton will be our first woman President. I’m guessing she’ll be around 45, so it’ll be another 20 years.
I don’t think Hillary will make it.
Christine Todd Whitman.
So… Atheist Black Female Lesbian for President? 
Hmmm…closest I can come up with is RuPaul
How about that black woman who was just named president of Brown University? She’s the first female to be head of an Ivy League institution, AND the first African-American.
She could be the Woodrow Wilson (president of Princeton before being elected US Prez) of the new century!
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Although Jefferson wasn’t too hot on having a Christian-run government, he did go to church sometimes. Maybe yer thinkin’ of ol’ Benjamin “Deist” Franklin, who was Secretary of State for a while and appears on the 100-dollar bill but still wasn’t a president.
I know Buchanan wasn’t married, but non-straight? Where’d ya hear this?
Oh, and if you believe Jack Chick, Catholics shouldn’t be considered Christians, so that makes John F. Kennedy a non-Christian president by Chick’s definition. 
I said non-male, not non-gender-dresser. But RuPaul is
very close.
Indira Ghandi was 3 out of 4.
Whoopie Goldberg’s Lesbian Lover, Shaniqua Rubenstein.
Jefferson was a great admirer of Jesus’s teachings, calling them ‘a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man’, but felt that Christianity, beginning with Paul, had corrupted them by introducing unnecessary supernatural elements. To Jefferson, Jesus was a great and wise man, but only a man. He was not the Son of God, he did not perform miracles, and he did not rise from the dead.
As for Buchanan’s gayness, I think I first heard that tidbit in history class, but there was also a recent discussion in GQ on the subject.