[nikos1121]

Shelby Steele has an excellent article in the WSJ Online today. He articulates better than anyone the issues surrounding Obama’s character and candidacy.

Please read: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120579535818243439.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

[wardaddy]

The second black man I’ve seen publicly scorn this....course Shelby is usually quite right.

Ted Williams on Great last nite surprised me by being pretty harsh on Wright and saying he torpedoed Obama...whom Ted did like.

But I noticed Leno and his band leader were still all Obama and hoping this would go away.

I chuckled about how they would react if this was about white racism....”wish it would go away”...lol

[TheThinker]

How to turn one's blackness to advantage? The answer is that one "bargains." Bargaining is a mask that blacks can wear in the American mainstream, one that enables them to put whites at their ease. This mask diffuses the anxiety that goes along with being white in a multiracial society. Bargainers make the subliminal promise to whites not to shame them with America's history of racism, on the condition that they will not hold the bargainer's race against him. And whites love this bargain -- and feel affection for the bargainer -- because it gives them racial innocence in a society where whites live under constant threat of being stigmatized as racist. So the bargainer presents himself as an opportunity for whites to experience racial innocence.

Welcome to the white experience. Many whites will vote for Barack for just this reason-so that somehow Barack will make it possible for whites not to have their race held against them.

How does Barack accomplish such a feat again?