The Color of His Skin: Would Barack Obama be even considered for President if he were white ?

New York Sun ^ | 09/22/2006 | JOHN McWHORTER

[drubyfive]

a skinny smooth-talking albeit slow-witted guy who looks somewhat like a chimp.

That's pretty much how they describe the current president over at DU, except the smooth-talking part.

[dead]

Why are they making this about color?

The whole point of the article is that Obama is being touted as "presidential material" by liberals and the media only because of his skin color.

It would be hard to write an article about that reality without mentioning Obama's skin color.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

In reference to international relations, he has virtually NO experience and I doubt anyone overseas would seriously set down across the table from him.
He's a socialist Rat pig. The Rats are the only ones that give a Rats ass if he's 'black'.

[sauropod]

Yes because he is incredibly PC.

[Mo1]

He confused Josh Belton for John Bolton during Bolton's confirmation hearings. That's all I need to know that he's a lightweight.

He's like that on the Senate floor also

[scooter2]

Were Obama all white, he'd be considered a skinny smooth-talking albeit slow-witted guy who looks somewhat like a chimp.

Oh, you mean a used car salesman.

[pgkdan]

Amidst all the glowing talk about the possibility of his becoming America's first black president in 2008, it's an interesting thought experiment to imagine whether Mr. Obama would elicit this swooning buzz if he were white.

If he were white he'd be a complete non-entity. He certainly wouldn't be a Senator and even if he were, his complete lack of accomplishments would preclude any talk of the White House. He's a big nothing.

[Defiant]

How can it be an apology for slavery to elect a man whose ancestors weren't slaves? They are African immigrants. I say elect Ken Blackwell to set the record straight--that the Republican party has always been the party of free blacks, and it is time to set them free once again from Democrat institutions that enslave them, this time, the welfare state and quota systems. Democrats gave blacks first slavery, then Jim Crow, poll taxes and segregation, then welfare, ghettos and unwed motherhood. Republicans existed to end slavery, and once they did, they gave blacks freedom, and said here you go, now use it. Dems took that freedom away again as soon as they had the power. So, remind me now, why do blacks vote 90 percent Democrat?

[pgkdan]

Why are they making this about color?

Because his whole career IS about color. Nobody would notice the guy if he were a white man.

[Txsleuth]

Thomas Sowell wouldn't be "black enough" for some people....like the article says.

IOW, if a black person is a Republican, that makes them "not black enough".

[OldEagle]

Post 9/11, I doubt anyone named Obama would be considered regardless of race.

[jdm]

Barack Obama is black?

[Polyxene]

"...the only parent I have seen supporting him is his White Mother."

Where's his daddy? Do we know?

[Nathan Zachary]

" I think they're talking about the kind of blackness that doesn't wash off."

Clinton's blackness doesn't wash off.

[fireman43]

Obama, for all the shilling the media will do for him, is a pretty hard left. The MSM thinks it can put its person in as President with their propaganda, as they did with Clinton in 1992. They don't have that power anymore.

If the Dems were serious about a black President, they would have told Harold Ford to stay in the House and give him a committee chairmanship for visibility.

[aShepard]

I've known President Palmer. President Palmer was my friend every Wednesday night. Mr. Obama, you're no President Palmer!!!

[Chi-townChief]

Yeah, we had quite a discussion here with our liberal friends winding up displeased, to say the least >>> http://www.network54.com/Forum/243655/thread/1137530908/last-1138808492/Clinton+Slams+Bush%2C+White+House+in+Harlem

[Diogenesis]

[elhombrelibre]

We could just as easily elect Condi and kill off two canards with one stone. There was a time when light-skinned African Americans would do their best to pass themselves off as white because of the disadvantages being black had in America. Now, anyone with some African heritage uses that fact for the advantages it has. That should tell us a lot about the progress we've made. Take away the self-inflicted wounds that come from Liberalism and its kooky self-destructive culture (drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, self-pity, despair, victimhood) and black Americans would have outpaced nearly all other groups in America. It's odd that the paradox of Liberal sympathy and its consequences isn't clear to more people. Naturally, the Democratic Party and the MSM must maintain the myth that most Americans are secret Klans men and Republicans hate blacks.

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