As anyone who watched the debates knows, there ain't a whole lot of grey matter in either Obama or McCain. Obama is slightly ahead of McCain on that score and whatever grey matter he has most probably comes form his white mother. Would America have elected a man who was 100% black or mostly black? The answer is clearly no but America has elected a man who is half black, a mulatto in traditional parlance. In reality America has elected it's first mulatto, not a true black man except by American standards which considers a person who is 1/8 black to be black. If Obama had been born in South Africa back in Apartheid days, he would have been classified as a Colored, not as a Black or an African. So much for Obama's blackness!
If we examine him closely, we can see what is usually called an Oreo cookie, black on the outside, white inside. He may come from the Hood and tried some drugs but he really belongs to the Harvard crowd, fairly bright, arrogant & liberal, not very decent or moral, greedy white people. I don't think I ever heard him say a word about urban renewal in the entire campaign. His wife is described by a phrase my mother used to use, "an uppity one." Everyone in the clan knew what that meant!
How did this congenial black fellow get to be President? Well, things just seemed to play out for him. He tossed his hat into the ring, having two whole years in the Senate at the same time that the wicked witch of the West , Miss Hillary (Daisy) tossed her broomstick into the ring. 95% white Iowa decided to vote for a black man for some reason in the caucuses. Was this the death knell of white racism? No, this was a way to quash Hillary. And there you have the tale, Obama was a vehicle to quash Hillary. The rest is history. The wicked witch of the west was actually vanquished by this guy.
I had a lot of respect for him back then. The thought of even voting for him in November and sending him money entered my mind like some wild illicit temptation. Coolness of mind quickly returned but I still retained a soft spot for this guy who ultimately vanquised the wicked witch of the west. He didn't even put her on the ticket. But then he makes her Secretary of State and now I see in the news that she wants more power for the state. Power is her vice just like sex is her husband's vice.
You made a big mistake Barry! I always felt you would self-destruct. I admit I thought and hoped that it would happen before you got elected but it is inevitable. You've sown the seeds of your own destruction by tarrying with the witch Hillary. She will destroy you! Remember, Macbeth, King Lear & Hamlet. You're about to join them! "Double, double, toil and trouble.....
Inside Obama’s Dream Machine
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Pretty mild stuff by recent political standards. But no matter what, he said, he would not demonize her. It would undermine the rationale for his whole campaign. "Barack looked around the room and said, 'That's not the way I want to win'," recalls Eric Holder Jr., deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton, who was present at the dinner. " 'We're not going to get personal. We're not going to kneecap anybody'." The room went silent. "It felt like time slowed down," Holder says. (Asked by NEWSWEEK how he'd recognize the threshold between "sharpening distinctions" and out-and-out attacks, Obama harked back to a noted Supreme Court case. "I think it was Justice [Potter] Stewart during an obscenity case, when they asked him what obscenity is, he said, 'I know it when I see it.' I know where I think you cross the line into the dark side of politics.")
Now Obama looks back on that period with wry humor. At an event last week in Coralville, Iowa, he described a favorite editorial cartoon that had appeared at the time. It depicted him smiling and hugging Hillary. The caption read: OBAMA ATTACKS CLINTON. "Folks were writing us off," he said. "They said, 'He's got to go negative. He can't keep on this positive campaign. If he wants to catch up, he's got to kneecap the front runner, do a Tonya Harding on her.' That's what they said … 'He's too nice. He can't win.' But you know what? We didn't change course. We kept on running a positive campaign. We pointed out our differences, but we rejected the slash-and-burn tactics that Washington is so accustomed to."
In the final three days in Iowa, Obama operatives made 150,000 phone calls to potential supporters. The campaign gave canvassers strict printed instructions telling them how to engage with voters as they went door to door drumming up support. "While canvassing for the campaign, you are acting as a representative of Senator Obama," the sheet read. "It's absolutely imperative that at all times we remain respectful, polite and overly nice to the people we encounter." Obama's Iowa staff painted a motto on the wall of the state's campaign headquarters. It sounded like something more suited to the side of a small-town police car: RESPECT, EMPOWER, INCLUDE.
Obama's reluctance to go negative dates back to his earliest forays into politics. Running for president of the Harvard Law Review, he won the support of conservative students in part by opting out of the culture wars on issues such as affirmative action in the early 1990s. Obama rewarded them for their support by appointing some conservatives to the review's masthead. As a state senator in Illinois, he made friends with GOP lawmakers and worked with them to reform the state's deeply flawed death-penalty system.
This approach does not endear him to some Democrats who, furious at George W. Bush, came to the '08 campaign hoping for a fight. For a more direct, unvarnished approach to politics, they need look no further than Obama's wife. Michelle has thrown herself into the cause and the competition. Where Obama emphasizes hope and self-belief in his stump speech, Michelle Obama throws down a challenge to voters to step up. While Obama rarely references his own racial identity or his personal struggles, Michelle draws a direct link between his experience in overcoming prejudice to his readiness for power. "On the day that he's inaugurated, [he] is going to send a different message to kids like me, thousands of kids like me who were told, 'No, no, wait. You're not ready, you're not good enough'," she told one crowd in Waterloo, Iowa, last week. "See, I'm not supposed to be here. As a black girl from the South Side of Chicago, I wasn't supposed to go to Princeton because they said my test scores were too low. They said maybe I couldn't handle Harvard because I wasn't ready. I don't even know why. But see, every time I pushed past other people's doubts and limitations, [when] Barack and I … earned the seat at the table that other people felt entitled to, the only thing we realized was that we were always more ready, more prepared than we ever imagined."
Still, after speeches, voters sometimes approach Michelle to express fear that Obama may not be able to win or could put himself in harm's way. Obama received Secret Service protection early in the campaign after unspecified threats. It is not a subject his wife likes to talk about. "She doesn't allow herself to go there," says Valerie Jarrett, Michelle Obama's close friend, who says Michelle has not raised the subject with her. "It would paralyze her to think like that." Michelle's brother, Craig Robinson, who is the head basketball coach at Brown University, says the potential danger was one of the things he discussed with her when Obama began his campaign. "That's always in the back of everybody's mind," he told NEWSWEEK. "There are a lot of crazy people out there. But you can't live your life worrying about them."
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