Margaret Cho - Who should win the Democratic nomination for president in 2008?

"It’s tremendously thrilling to have a person of color in the White House"

From the Dallas Voice:

Okay, Hillary or Obama? I’m really an Obama fan. I like Hillary, too. That’s the problem — I’m very much into both. It’s hard. But you can’t vote for both. You have to vote for one.

When did you know you became an Obama fan? I was working a lot with Kal Penn [the Asian-American actor from “Harold and Kumar”] who is a big Obama campaign surrogate. I recently taught a class for him at U Penn in Philadelphia. We were talking about Obama, and he’s working for his campaign. I thought I would join him.

What got you over the Obama fence? Because he’s talking a lot about race and where we are as a country when it comes to race. It’s tremendously thrilling to have a person of color in the White House. Tucker Carlson was recently talking about how upset he was — as a straight white man — that his opinions were being eclipsed by the women and by the people of color. I thought that was great, and that’s what turned my attention towards the Obama campaign.

Posted on 5/14/2008 12:12:45 PM by MikeDApproved 5/15/2008 11:38 AM