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It is just a matter of time before will be a female president.  Hilary Clinton almost become the first female president if she didn&#8217;t lose to Obama.  After a female president, the next one on the line is probably a gay president.  There are gay governor already.  It may take sometime before the American consider voting for a gay president.  By that time, probably computer is so advance that we have AI smarter than people.  If the American willing to vote for a gay, they must as well vote for a robot.  Having a robot president is more defining historical moment than having a black president.  On a second thought, why don&#8217;t we call the robot president Skynet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I watched Obama&#8217;s inaugural on the news. Washington is very crowded. According to the news, there are two million people witness the ceremony. It is a historical moment to the Americans. Many people compare Obama to John F. Kennedy. 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In 2008, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/obama-is-in-whats-next\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama is in, what&#8217;s next?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"lc_iscn_info":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,149],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_scribble","tag-usa","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Obama is in, what&#039;s next? - \u54f2\u5b50\u6232 Philosophist\u2019s Camp<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today I watched Obama&#039;s inaugural on the news. 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