Time for one of those lighter side of politics stories. When you grow up the first generation American of Cuban immigrants, it's easy to claim that you're blind to color... Marco Rubio can actually claim that - whether it's true relative to ethnicity and cultures, we're not 100%. But, when it comes to colorblindness in the real sense, he's legit...
Yep, according to an article in The Hill, the Florida Senator and possible Vice-Presidential choice is colorblind. He was being interviewed by ITK recently, when he was asked about Orlando landing the Number Four spot of the worst dressed people in America (with a billion toursists and everyone dressed like Mickey Mouse, what did you expect?). Rubio smartly avoided the question, and they then asked about his choices in suits and ties, and he admitted that he is colorblind, which a staffer later grudgingly confirmed. That could cause a problem in the General Election if Rubio can't tell the Red States from the Blue ones on the map, so we assume he'll keep checking the Electoral College instead...
No, colorblindness is not an uncommon malady... About 8% of men have some varying degree of colorblindness. In fact, it's not even that rare in politics. We didn't know this, but in 1996, BOTH Bill Clinton and Bob Dole requested a special light during their debates, because they both had a green-red colorblindness problem! That explains a lot, becuase the Dole campaign seemed in STOP mode all along...
So, how does Rubio work around his problem? Like most men do - he lets his wife pick out the clothes, though choosing the navy blue suit with the white shirt and red tie can hardly be considered challenging. He better hope that they get along OK, or else he might end up on stage looking like Rip Taylor one of these days!
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