[mtbopfuyn]

And then there's the question what if his mama hadn't named him after looking in her bowl of alphabet soup.

[dfwgator]

becoming America's first black president in 2008,

I thought Bill Clinton was our first Black President.

[massgopguy]

He'd be Dan Quayle. By the way, the only parent I have seen supporting him is his White Mother. I wonder if she ever got kicked out of a Kwaanza celebration?

[BufordP]

Or ugly?

[kalee]

In one word, NO.

[BookaT]

A year and some change and he has already done more and probably attended more days than J"Effing"Kerry has in his entire senate career.

But that just makes him adequate(i.e. attending and doing his job) and not Presidential material. Way to soon to say he has what it takes.

[BufordP]

Or short? Or fat? Or short, fat, and ugly?

[Disturbin]

He's a socialist, what else matters?

[JZelle]

Why are they making this about color? Thomas Sowell isn't white either and I'd vote for him in a heartbeat!

[Chi-townChief]

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

[samtheman]

President Obama might be, for instance, a substitute for that national apology for slavery that some consider so urgent.

As President he might make that apology. On behalf of all of his. Directed towards all African-Americans. Including himself.

It will be a Grand Statement of Self-Referential Regret, such as the world has never seen. Almost worth electing him for. (Or maybe not.)

[billhilly]

He would be laughed out of politics.

[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.

[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?

[OldEagle]

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

[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!!!

[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.