I wonder if Martin Luther King Junior is rolling over...

[unteins]

Barack Obama is a tragedy in the Greekest of sense.

I can't help but cringe at the awful irony that on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking these words:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.that Barack

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[maddogairpirate]

That rationale seems to suggest that everyone voted for Obama because he was black.

I've rolled this over for a long time now, wondering what his appeal was. His appeal is that he's not like the other candidates, and I don't mean skin color. He's inexperienced, he's fairly liberal, he carries a good deal of optimism and talks about overturning the Bush years.

That's his appeal, not his skin color.

Where he fails to win me, however, is that his ideas are vague, impossible without Congressional support (which he will not get), or they're impractical. Or several of the above.

[unteins]

Actually, it has nothing to do with anyone voting for Obama because he is or isn't black.

The point I am making is that his blackness is being promoted by the media and there is no way that he gets the promotion as (at best) half black if he doesn't also look.

One could just as easily argue that Obama is in fact just one more white male running for President in a long line of white males and it would have as much validity as him being black except that he has dark skin and more African American features.

[maddogairpirate]

You mean as a marketing point? Well, I can't suppose I can deny that. However, it shouldn't cheapen his message and policies... whatever they are. Perhaps one day I'll know.

[jordan179]

His ancestry is, in fact, mostly German-American and Arab.

[jordan179]

Uhh... where are you getting Arab? His father was Kenyan, I believe from the Jolou tribe (don't quote me on the tribe name, though). Kenyan =/= Arab

I had thought his father was of Kenyan nationality but mostly Arab extraction -- I'll have to check deeper into that.