Here is the correct post again.
snood wrote:
Okie - sit down, I have to tell you something...
THE LAUNCH THREAD WAS MEANT TO BE IRONIC . Since Obama is obviously someone who identifies and is recognizable to any casual observer as an African american, to say it was "discovered", or found after "investigation" is just playing, see?
Also (and this is a little more subtle, so put on your thinking cap), it is very obvious that his blackness in itself is a factor that is included in a lot of people's reasoning about Obama - whether they admit it or not. So the thread is also meant as a little needle in the sides of those people who obviously see his race, but do a lot of acrobatic denying that they notice.
Okay, I think I understood your thread title was meant to be ironic, when you started it, but my point is that the irony may have more meaning than you are giving it credit. Shelby Steele, and Thomas Sowell are bringing up good points here, and indeed blackness means alot more than color of skin to racists, including people like Jeremiah Wright, and it is being suggested here that Obama is somehow still trying to find his identity in more ways than color of skin.
Speaking for myself, I think you are much more conscious of your race having influence than many people actually are. I am enthusiastic about voting for any person, regardless of race, if they share the same conservative values and leadership skills that I am looking for in a president, and I don't think I am much different than most people I know.
So, snood you sit down, I am telling you the problem with Obama is not his race, it is his politics, plain and simple. I would no more vote for Gore or Kerry either, you should know that, it isn't race. I have said more than once that I think Michael Steele shows much promise, I would support Condi Rice. I like Powell, although his politics are not quite as conservative as I would prefer, he could get my vote far sooner than Al Gore, Kerry, Clinton, or a whole host of other liberal Democrats. But when people like myself learn about the racism connected to close friends like Wright, it makes me run all the faster the other way, I want no part of that mindset. Such threatens to do great damage to any progress that has so far been accomplished, and that is what folks like Thomas Sowell are trying to tell all of us.[/quote]