The Caucasian Card

If Obama was White he would be leading by double digits. He has been called the Anti-Christ, Un-American and many other names. McCain plans on winning not by telling Americans what he will do, but by bringing Obama down with lies and half truths. I think people are dreaming if they think White America will allow a Black man to be president of this country. Even with Affirmative action Blacks weren't allowed to go but so high up. Hillary was right some of her supporters are just racist and will never vote for a Black man. McCain can't win by saying what he will do for this country. His only hope is to bring Obama down and try to make him seem scary. The scary thing to me is that the same people that voted for Bush will be voting for McCain. Then they will blame Congress for the state of the country.

This woman is mistaken if she doesn't think minorities get advancement because of Affirmative Action and white guilt. The only reason freshmen Senator Obama was considered a serious candidate for president was because he is black.

The laughable thing is that Obama was a white guy until he decided to become a black guy. I mean he was raised by a white mother and white grandparents. They sent him to toney white schools. It's hard to pinpoint the time when he made the decision to be black. Certainly he had become a black guy by the time he arrived in Chicago after Harvard Law.

I find it funny that Obama and his minions are now pushing the meme that he did not include his race on his Harvard application. I am sure there were many ways his race was well known to them.

Dear Ms. Quindlen after reading your excellent article I was surprised to see that you graduated from Barnard. I would have expected you to have graduated from the more prestigious Williams or Amherst . You must have been a late bloomer.

Ms. Quindlen, your article has nearly driven me mad with guilt, shame, and regret. I cannot wait for election day when my vote for Obama will lessen the feelings that now oppress me. May your article be read by thousands of others like myself and may it burden them as it has burden me and may they too seek relief through their vote.

McCain has a darn good chance of winning in November. If the last eight years have shown us anything, it's that the overwhelming majority of voters in the U.S. are stupid and ignorant, unable to read a book and therefore unable to learn from history, gullible and therefore easy victims for scare tactics, greedy and selfish. They are largely without common sense and absolute strangers to logic. I would be very depressed about this, except for the fact that they are even now beginning to reap the disastrous results of their stupidity and it's going to get worse rapidly (yes I'm talking to the people who can't sell their big ole SUVs). Say hello to ever rising gas prices and a crumbling economy! You deserve it!

I think your argument concerning race and meritocracy is excellent because I was caught in that racist trap of considering affirmative-action and quotas to mean the ascendancy of the second-rate. I knew that was wrong and unjust but wasn't able to articulate an adequate counter-argument, until I read your article so thanks for helping me to break through that conundrum. While I agree with practically all your points, particularly about non-whites experiencing discrimination (I'm east Indian so I know first hand), I will say in the case of Obama it doesn't apply. He most definitely was using race-card as a bludgeon against John McCain to try to shut down any attacks against him as racist. He stated it bluntly in June with him comment "oh by the way, did you know he's black" (where he repeated the same attack against McCain).

I personally have no issues with a black president, but Obama's values are downright dangerous for this country, particularly his passivity towards the enemies of America, not to mention his lack of any leadership experience, his far left radical connections, his endless flip-flopping for political expedience, partisanship, his arrogance and presumption of entitlement and so forth, I'm just scratching the surface. If Obama and McCain's background/character were reversed, Obama would be getting my vote, but since that's not the case obviously McCain deserves it. Let's not elect a president out of white-guilt, that'd be a disservice to the country and also a setback for race-relations when people realize Obama is incompetent and unfit to lead.

Obama got this far because the DNC prevented fair elections in 2 states that were Clinton wins. Obama got this far because 95% of blacks blindly voted for him and the caucuses skewed the primary results unfairly in his favor. Don't make this out to be some grand study of character in the face of adversity when it's just another shrewd politician who had unlimited funds and a scheme to be president since Obama graduated from law school. Obama farts and Newsweek hears Beethoven.