Comments on: Why White People Like Barack Obama

The New Republic: Race May Be An Issue, But It's Good News For Obama

[big_helmet]

Only if he were running against the likes of a Hugo Chavez would he get my vote.

[bluestardad]

As long as he portrays himself as an American and not something else America will support him. But it is scary what Rove will do with this guy!

[knyghtwolf]

No racism going on in this forum eh? Why does race or skin color have to factor in at all? How about whether or not the candidate actually has the ABILITIES to lead a country such as ours? Will that ever factor in to the equation?

[davey214]

The man would make a nice president if he wasn't a democrat or abortionist.

[josefremonde]

White American elected a man with a low IQ and little or no political experience and many are
happy with his disasterous reign. Senator Obama
certainly could not do worse. Notwithstanding he has an above average IQ. Whites like him because "HE IS NOT BLACK." Obama is the son of a
white Jewish American mother and an East African father and has no DNA or racial kinship to black
Americans who do not descend from Jews nor East
Africans. Moreover, Obama grew up in Indonesia
and Hawaii and was reared up by his white material grandparents. His life experiences are light years away from black America. These facts do not make black America happy but if black America is expecting a Jesse Jackson type
to one day be elected president is never going to happen. Barack Obama is the nearest thing to black you are ever going to get for the presidency.

[jipoku]

Other than age and being born in the U.S., there are few prerequisites for becoming president. It's a tough job, but it's the kind of job where we don't know what kind a president a person will be until after they are already president. When we vote, we're trying to guess as well as we can who will do the best job with all that we know about the candidate in an unforeseeable future. Is Obama the best person for the job? I don't know. But two years as a Senator versus four years or forty years won't change a person's natural ability to lead and grapple with today's complex world.

I think trying to explain why someone has presidential buzz is an utterly useless conversation. Some say that the reason that Obama is in the running for president is because he's black. But I would argue that the reason why people considered electing almost every other major presidential candidate up to this point is because of their race--white and not black, Asian or Latino. There are probably tens, if not hundreds, of people who could run the country better than the Dimwit in Chief currently in the office. But being considered for president is due a little bit to skill and experience but a whole lot more to political savvy, image and plain old serendipity.

[cmp271]

This is for swe190n, does it matter what race I am? Jackson and Sharpton are always bringing up race, it has no place. Thank you for making me a Saint, as long as I am not associated with being a New Orleans Saint....

There are some rather darker shades out there who would also be great candidates. what is odd is we never look at whites and say "he or she is too dark or light to be considered." So why do we do this to blacks. By the way the blacks have been in America too long to be called African American, and so have the whites who want to be known as Irish or Italian American. We get diluted after awhile-know what I mean??? Obama can say he is African, his Daddy is really from there. Who knows where some of the brothers have been or who their Mama's are, same for the ladies (oh ladies-Mercedes-lol).

Thank you for thinking I am black (or am I really white or other?). I have successfully achieved bridging the race gap.

[destardi2]

I live in Chicago; Obama has potential, but he's only been in office for 2 full years. I am a progressive, liberal, whatever, and it disgusts me to see extreme leftists push for Obama, based on race...and to some degree, one poster is correct in saying people "only see race." I agree in the sense that Obama is deemed "white enough," or how about "proper enough," and he's called BLACK, when in fact he's of a black African, and Caucasion background.

It disgusts me how a man who has darker skin than others, is perceived as "black," and "proper(white)" manners, so therefore he is electable.

I disagree that only liberals see things like this, because conservatives do the same hero-worshipping on other characteristics; it's the human way, unfortunately.

Obama is not ready; he's not done much, he hasn't said much, and he's not all that. His record is identical to Hillary Clinton's, and I rest my case.

[cmayes2]

What is acting white, I've never understood that. So, if you ride a fine car, is educated, don't say yo'mama, then that's white; so,if you do the above then you're black. In other words white man have excepted that how we are portrayed on TV and in books is how we are. Well, that's not how we are, and have never been. We've always owned land, bought houses ( my parents built their first house from the ground in the early 1950's). It was 12 of us and we all finished high school, and entered institutions of higher learning. There's different goups of Black people, as their are different groups of whites.

[drsweener]

Where did you read that, Redneck's Illustrated?