Reply #26: Do you SERIOUSLY think he'd be where he is, with his resume, if he was white?

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Many people seem to think he's the best orator since Danton, but many of the rest of us just hear preachy noise and loping quasi-melodic vagueness.

His resume is FAR from world-beating. He's been going with the flow and ducking many of the hard calls, as he makes some of the other hard calls WRONG. I guess 30% is too low to cap credit card interest, isn't it? That Iran "Sense" was truly dangerous, but he couldn't even show up to vote, and only after Edwards started making hay out of it did he finally find his voice of outrage. Single-payer health care might crimp his wife's ability to make $6,000.00 a week as an administrator for profitable medicine, wouldn't it?

Her comments weren't racist, and she deserves the right to say things like this because she's been very clear in admitting that she never would have had the VP slot had she not been a woman. SHE acknowledges the benefit her non-whitemale status gave her on this occasion, just as she frankly describes how she's been kept back due to her gender.

Besides all that, being spurred by someone bringing up the issue of race does not justify you or anyone else some kind of immunity from reproach if you fire back with some race-based tirade.

Obama's benefited plenty from racism, whether he's actively courted it in any other instance than South Carolina, and he's wise to avoid the subject.

I'm sure Louis Farrakhan would love him as the savior of mankind just as much if he was a Korean Jew, but a few of his other supporters aren't as fair minded.

Blacks got the vote in 1865; women had to wait until 1920.

With his resume, he'd never get a shot at the presidency without some special status, and it's obvious to many of us even if the concept is outrageous to the faithful.