@revelette2,
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Why couldn't people have simply liked Obama over Hillary? I have heard every excuse in the world as to why Obama was elected. He was elected twice, maybe, just maybe, it had something to do with him. I know it did and still does for me.
I am sure the majority preferred Obama over Hillary but not initially, if simply because they did not know anyone of another race. Of course, a black man can be just as competent or incompetent at the US presidency as any white man, but America had never experienced anyone but a white man as president of the US and believed
the seat of the US presidency was reserved exclusively for the white man! Also, you must remember, the idea of a black president of the US seemed decades away, when America's white majority has diminished while the brown majority is on its way to becoming the majority in the United States of America.
America needed an emotional and cognitive wake-up call, in not so many words, to be willing to think past accepted concepts and perspectives, to strive for the different. They needed to believe someone else might be able to do the job just as well or even better. The impact of the disastrous war in the middle east by the incompetent Bush actors shook America up, so badly, that they wanted a change; they decided to do something completely different, elect someone contradistinctive, a highly educated young black man by the name of Barack Obama.
By now, Rev, you should have observed Obama's merciless critics, the obstructions at every turn by the pernicious right-wing Republicans; John Boehner going to Isreal to conspire with the Israeli government's PM on how to undermine Obama's talks with Iran and our 5 allies. There have been all kinds of mockeries made of a ridiculous unsatisfactory kind against President Obama and his wife, Michelle. This is the backlash of anger stemming from racist, punitive, vindictive minds, simply because as an American Barack Obama dared to dream and actually grasp the goal he was seeking.
