But that's the point.  All pols do this.  It's stagecraft.  It's typical.  Obama is not the second coming of anything other than politics as usual.  Vote for him if you think he's the best pol running, but quit putting on airs.  That's all I ask.

Meanwhile, here people are being fairly reasonable as you are. It is nice to see people be reasonable.

Personally, I think the quotation as it is was, was pretty crass and insensitive.  Given the holier-than-thou, "transformational" claim the Obama campaign has made on the issue of race, it does show that they aren't any more clever, sensitive or skilled than most of the rest of us are.

Remember when that faith based czar who was a democrat left the Bush administration, he said that EVERTHING is done in the White House for political reasons.  Obama reminds me so much of these Rove tactics. Its a change alright from what  what we're used to as democrats.

I'm not happy that he's got bloggers saturating the internet. His aggressiveness is creeping me out.

Its too calculated and too staged for me.

And yet no where in this whole ridiculous escapade did any white people go out to declare that Obama isn't white.  I mean, technically his mother is white.  half of his family tree is white. He is every bit as much white as he is not white (by whatever definition you chose to go by).  Heck, he's a VERY distant cousin to Dick Cheney even.

But I never saw a white person go out into the media to declare that Obama isn't white.

I don't know why, but just now I thought about that and had to wonder.

As far as being bi-racial.  The absolute strangest and most bizaare and most tragic racial story I have ever heard was about a boy who was black...but he was also white.  It's not that he was bi-racial or of mixed heritage.  his entire family was black.  He, however, was an albino.  A white sheep if you will  If you looked at him you'd never think he was any less than very nordic.  platinum blond hair, light blue eyes, and pink as a newborn pigglet. I can't imagine what that must have been like, growing up.  People who don't know you thinking you're white, and your black family treating you differently because you are different.

He had very deep psychological disturbance that led him to kill his mother and baby sister and hold his brother at gunpoint out in the street in front of his house where, after a standstill with police, was shot in the head by them.

But I guess you admit Obama is your everyday politician who is game for maneuvers seen in almost every campaign. He only walks on water on the weekends, I guess.