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

[joe fonebone]

NO.........NO...A THOUSAND TIMES, NO!!!

[Isabelle]

Is America ready for a president with a muslim name?
President Barack Hussein Obama?

[griswold3]

The "color of his skin" makes him bulletproof!! You could never criticize him for anything!!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Not if Hillary has anything to do with it.

[Tokra]

Just proves how racist the democrats are. Even more proof is that this guy is half white with light skin (another generation would have called him "high yaller").

He's a "safe Negro".

If he looked like Idi Amin, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

"What hypocrites these liberals be."

[drubyfive]

Aside from the obvious immaturity of it, I have no objection to anyone comparing a politician to a chimp, unless that person is also an evolution-denier, in which case they are hypocritical. My opinion is we all have chimpish characteristics.

[SmoothTalker]

He wouldn't but we need to be careful about making the same mistake with Condi Rice. I've commented several times that nobody on here would be talking her up were it not for the color of her skin.

[Salamander]

He looks like Gilbert Gottfried, to me.

[and with just 4 more steps, we can somehow connect him to Kevin Bacon]...;]

[sgtyork]

Oh darn, I thought it was an Irish name Barach O'Bama

[toddlintown]

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

Since she's dead, that's quite a feat.

[toddlintown]

"Where's his daddy? Do we know?"

Dead, as is his mother.

[Jim Verdolini]

"Would Barack Obama be even considered for President if he were white?"

Only if he was a spainish speaking gay fellow.

[gafusa]

See, that is the point. If he was smart, or strong, they would not support him. They want a tool, the Democrats survive through keeping his race down, if he was smart it would defeat the whole purpose of the idea.

[Suzy Quzy]

uh.....no.

[Suzy Quzy]

Did you see his African grandmother??/ Right out of National Geographic, but with clothes.

[synbad600]

I read (a female conservative columnist, can't remember which one) that Halley Bailey's white mother raised her after her black father bolted and she used her blackness to get where she is.

[supremedoctrine]

Call Rush Limbaugh---I think we have the Duncan McNabb of American Politics! Seriously, I knew an important corner had been turned when Obama got the carefully posed, pretty-boy magazine cover on GQ recently. This is what our political landscape has become: a void.

[ladyjane]

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

Absolutely.

It's bad enough we have Muslim secret service men. A Muslim for President? The Dems might be stupid enough to try it.

[PISANO]

He is young, not bad looking, has a great story etc

Well that clinches it for me, he is eminently qualified.......he has got my vote!!

[sgtyork]

I'm not sure that's true. In the past Secretaries of State ascended to higher political office. The first President Bush's major background was Dir of CIA and Ambassador to China.