Obama's success due to race?
Simple question. I want to see if I'm as unbiased as I think I am. Where do you think Obama would be now if he was a white guy? Honestly now. -- Dwayne
Dear Dwayne: Do you really want my honest answer? Here it is. I never heard of the guy who used to be governor of Arkansas until people started talking him up in 1991 and I thought to myself: Arkansas? What the heck qualifies that guy to be president?
Then the guy from Texas, whose only experience was being a rich boy who lucked into being the state's governor, was the new coming star in 2000, and I thought, what business does this guy have being president?
So now we have a U.S. senator that nobody heard of before and everybody is fawning over the guy because, apparently, he gives a good speech. I do not know if he has any business being president either.
However, if the game is, the upstarts Clinton and Bush were legitimate when they came from nowhere, but Obama has gotten where he is because he is black -- I ain't playin'.
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From FDR to Bush, We only had on President worth his salt, that was Harry Truman.
Clinton was the biggest joke of all, and still is.
Obama could do no worse.
Posted by: guy | March 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM
"Clinton was the biggest joke of all, and still is."
Yeah, Guy... I'm still laughing about that whole no-deficit, solid economic growth, solid social security system, functioning Medicare, funded education, and good standing within the world community thing.
I’m so glad Dubya came alone and reversed all that bad stuff, huh?
Posted by: | March 17, 2008 at 04:12 PM
Mr. No name,
You have written many things I agree with.
But here my friend you have been snookered.
Posted by: guy | March 17, 2008 at 05:25 PM
The good economic conditions were due in large part to what Reagan did in the 80s. Clinton just happened to be in the right place at the right time, something he has proved to be adept at.
Posted by: Alex | March 18, 2008 at 09:06 AM
Ouch! When you look at it that way..... being the editor of the Harvard Law Review and a successful politician up to the federal senate and being more articulate than most and all that other stuff might have something more to do with it then skin color.
Who'd ah thunk it?
The world used to be easier to understand, if alot more sucky, when you could organize everything around skin color.
Posted by: Bubba from Whymomma | March 18, 2008 at 12:02 PM
just give us the name of any politician[OF ANY COLOR] who seems to know what they are doing other than "hyping" the situation!! then we have these "followers" who seem to follow blindly!! its not "a pretty picture"!!
Posted by: ed | March 21, 2008 at 03:10 PM