So am I ... But I'd be accused of being a racist if I were to do so.

During the '08 primaries, I declared my support for Candidate Obama and one of my rightwing friends actually said, "Of course you'll support him ... you're Black!"

After I stopped laughing, I asked: "So you're supporting McCain because he's white, right?"

Even after I explained my perception of the policy differences between the Democratic candidates and my perception that Candidate Obama had the weight of threshold characteristics, like charisma and superior oratory skills, I still don't think he got it.

Ignorance is bliss for so many people. They shut off their minds and put them on automatic at some point in their lives and forget that they have mental skills.

I grew up in the 60's here in Cleveland. There was a lot of racial tension. It's one of the reasons I decided to be a democrat, to tell the truth. Carl Stokes was running for Mayor in '67. I was nine years old. My aunt took me to one of the hundreds of street fairs and church festivals that at that time was one of the best things to do as a kid.

One of the festivals was St. Rocco's on the near west side. Carl Stokes showed up and made his way through the crowd. I didn't know how dangerous that was for him at the time, I was only 9, but I took his hand when he offered and he said I hope I can count on your vote little man and then he was off into the crowd.

I don't think he made too many friends because years later I looked over the precinct by precinct voter tally's. Of the couple thousand votes cast in that election in what was St. Rocco's Parish boundaries, there were less than 100 votes cast for him.

After that, I realized what a courageous man he was. I got to meet him later when I was the treasurer for the Democratic Party, but he was already suffering the ravages of Alzheimer's. He was a great man and I will never forget that day.

And knew Carl and his brother Lou, personally.

It would not surpise me if I also knew/have run into you, as well!

of depression, which is turning my neighborhood into a ghetto.

you jump all over Congress for their responsibility by sitting like a lump on Capitol Hill and doing squat.

if it makes you feel better, i consider congress a pack of criminals.

but i'll add, i have serious issues with the president's education policies, and they're on *his* head, not congress's. nobody's blocking his hand in that department, they're fully on-board with the destruction of public schools.

arne duncan, *he* applauded mass firing of school personnel, and *he* is selling the destruction of public education as "reform".

...power than the executive branch. The House can override presidential vetos and that's been fact for 200 years

complaints about his admin?

bullshit.

Obviously the same people who didn't vote for Obama because he wasn't white will refuse to vote for him in the second election.

I feel most white voters chose Obama to be President because he promised hope and change and looked like he just might be a truly great leader that could make a true difference in the future of our nation.

I feel that those white voters who did vote for Obama still personally like him but are somewhat disappointed with the fact that little has changed in Washington and both parties and also that he didn't use his charisma to force both parties to stop fighting with each other like unsupervised children in a playground. Many are also unhappy with how slow our economic recovery has been and often any President has to take the blame for a lack of a poor economy when election day arrives.

If McCain or Hillary had been elected many white voters would feel let down just as they do now.

I understand that the Great Recession was far deeper than anyone predicted and it is unrealistic to feel that any President could overcome the problems we faced in one term. FDR, possibly the greatest President of the last century, couldn't overcome the Great Depression in four years.

The upcoming election will be close but fortunately Romney is a weak candidate.

way out the door. A bigot is a freaking bigot--I don't care how upscale they are.

A bunch of ignorant dumbasses.

I doubt the topic would have been raised!

if they allow vermin like that woman in their home.

...and he was a Harry one!

I would have had a lot less friends and chances are I would never be invited to dinner in that house again!

Family are way more important than politics.... And to perfectly honest the peope I know that are not obama supports are against his policies and actions not the color of his skin.

and the regular comments about him being un-American or not knowing what America stands for lead me to believe that many people in this country don't consider black Americans to be truly American.

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The stupid and hate just seem to go on.

Or to make that lady feel less embarrassed. It would be interesting to contact them later and see what they really think.

What about the guy who asked the question? What did he think?

Very interesting. It's been so thoroughly debunked, that a person has to be quite unpolitical to still think that.

and he rounded up everyone else and sent us to FEMA camps

I voted for Obama, and will again. So will everyone in my immediate family. We are all white. These fucks at their fancy dinner party just don't want to pay taxes. Fuck them. They probably cluck clucked when Clinton was impeached about how he had disgraced the Oval Office too.

overwhelmingly for Obama and will again and this state in like 98% white. it's the worst thing about it.

Suburban, slightly upscale, businessmen and their wives, engineers in defense industries or retired ones-and I doubt there's much racial or economic diversity there to speak of.

This isn't a surprise to me, though. Such suburbs (and their younger cousins, the exurbs) are the core of the modern Republican Party, not rural areas or small towns.

Whatever the hell that is.

Just line sexism, we won't be free of it for a long time.

Many people aren't even conscious of their bigotries.

It's very sad and disturbing.

I can tell you, yes, there are many people who obsess about it and will never get over it, even when Obama is gone. They view it as some kind of stain on the office.

There are caucasians in America. They do not represent a unified group of political or other beliefs. I'm a white American. If the people you're talking about aren't comfortable with President Obama because he has dark skin, then I'm not part of that group. Yet, I am a white American.

Another example of expanding a minor anecdote into a generalization.

That's a common logical error. One of the most common. Please don't be common.

I am white also, but I have lots of blood relatives who are black, Latino and Asian and they all have kids and grandkids of their own now too. And I am proud of every one of them.

When we have our annual family reunion it looks like the Rainbow Coalition.

I was just thinking about this yesterday.

Don

But, there will always be some who are bit uncomfortable.So the republicans get the "he's not one of us" out there to try and make sure they don't lose any more republicans to Obama than they already have.

A few minds have changed, and some people have died, but yeah, if race was a big thing to someone four years ago, it probably still is. I never really think of Obama as being a black man. Obviously, he is, but he's the President, not the black President.

competent as he is and mostly making a lot white men look stupid and evil.

she's uncomfortable with a brother in the WH, yet she says she's not racist. How the Sam Hell is that possible??