Would Obama be where he is if he were not half white?

[eeyore]

Personally, I don't give a shit what color he is, but I wonder whether his half-whiteness is what makes him a "safe" black candidate to white America.

Remember, when this campaign began there was an issue with black Americans saying he's not black enough.

What's changed? Now he's getting a free ride because he's black?

:crazy:

[provis99]

1. One-drop rule is all that matters.

[eeyore]

3. ?

Care to expand upon that?

[XemaSab]

9. One drop of black blood=

you're black.

[eeyore]

18. Thank you.

At least he's overcome the "not black enough" meme. Ferraro can kiss my lily white ass.

[XemaSab]

21. Are you sure your great-great-great-great grandma

wasn't 1/4 black?

'Cause then Ferraro could kiss your black ass. :D

[eeyore]

26. Good point!

Unfortunately I'm just a lowly Euro-Mutt. I am, however, the product of two Irish grandmothers, so I do have the O' side of me in common with O'Bama! gO'Bama!

Thanks for the levity on a completely infuriating night.


:toast:

[Recursion]

23. Google "one drop rule", but also read "dreams from my father"...

...for a somewhat more subtle and well-thought-out take on the issue of multi-racial-ness.

[donheld]

13. Google the "one-drop rule"

You need an education.

[DJ13]

2. Would Obama be where he is if he was a Smurf?

I doubt it.

No one wants a President with blue balls.

[walldude]

4. We had one of those already...

Ouch.. sorry, but if the foo shits...

[rug]

8. Don't bring Spitzer into this.

[DJ13]

11. Don't bring Spitzer into this.

LOL

:spank:

:thumbsup:

[FrenchieCat]

5. Maybe its just him! Has anyone thought of that?

[XemaSab]

17. Don't be so self-hating!

/crazy GDP logic :crazy:

[quantass]

6. You mean like this?..(PIC)

Seems quite natural to me.

[babylonsister]

7. Haven't you been paying attention? He's winning because

both candidates have such similar platforms that people are drawn to the most optimistic, charismatic, cool, cute, new, fresh, non-confrontational, non-polarizing candidate out there. Simple!

[Swamp Rat]

14. yep

The message of 'hope' is a winner.

Who in their right mind is against hope? :shrug:

[eeyore]

16. Agreed...

But somehow there are people against hope. I don't really get it.

[snappyturtle]

10. OMG! Enough. n/t

[eeyore]

15. Just trying to show how insane this all is.

Too black, too white, race-baiting, race-pandering, etc.




:crazy:

[snappyturtle]

27. Okie dokie!

:eyes:

[TheZug]

12. What changes is whatever excuse Hillary needs--sexism, reverse racism, whatever.

[candice]

19. He certainly had advantages being raised by his white mother and grandparents in Hawaii...

...as opposed to having grown up in an inner-city neighborhood or the rural South. His background makes him upper-middle class.

His parents were both college educated. He had the advantage of going to excellent schools. Prep school in Hawaii, Occidental, Columbia, Harvard Law.

Looks good in a suit.

[babylonsister]

20. He spent the years 10-18 in HI. Prior to that, he

lived in Indonesia though he was born in HI. However you want to mute his childhood, have at it. Have you ever heard of haoles? I have, and they aren't treated well in HI, some of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (born in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Bondo District, Nyanza Province, Kenya,<8> of Luo ethnicity) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas).<9> Throughout his early years, he was commonly known at home and school as "Barry".<10> Obama's parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.<11> They separated when he was two years old and later divorced.<12> His father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident in 1982.<13> His mother married another foreign student, Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967.<14> Obama attended local schools in Jakarta from ages 6 to 10, where classes were taught in Indonesian.<15><16> He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade until his graduation in 1979.<17> Obama's mother, Ann, died of ovarian cancer and uterine cancer a few months after the publication of his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.<18>

[PerfectSage]

22. Would Obama be where he is if he were not a genius?

Obviously he got excellent communication skills. I can tell he's been reading Luntz and Lakoff.

He wins my John Boyd seal of approval as a strategist. Love his grassroots campaign. Two thumbs up!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)#The_OODA_Loop

[tenderdog]

24. I doubt it

Being half white makes him more attractive to White voters. pure black candidates have not been successful at a national level.

[cooolandrew]

25. What makes him a safe candidate is his callfor unityso LET'S go there yeah.