Other than sitting in the pew of the Trinity Church in Chicago for I don't know how many years he is a genuine snow skier.

Well, I do note with some irony that he was there for the specific purpose of giving him self some black street creds.

He doesn't really have the ghetto credentials, or real civil rights credentials. He hasn't released a Rap Album, picked a bail of cotton, witnessed a lynching or endured any hardships. Growing up in Hawaii, going Indonesia, prep school and attending Harvard & taking money from Tony Rezko don't really qualify you as Black.

Other than sitting in the pew of the Trinity Church in Chicago for I don't know how many years he is a genuine snow skier. His kids are even blacker than he is.

Here's a partial list of what I mean.

Go ahead, Glasnost. Explain this to us. Tell us how you're proud of being a Democrat.

James:

Your statement assumes that Blacks are attempting to vote their self-interest. In all honesty, given the history at the link, one wonders how that fits.

Kentucky exit polls. There's a really, strikingly large percentage of white people admitting that race was a factor in their vote down there. The sample size is a lot larger than one.

Presumably, race is a factor in the votes of the 90+ percent of blacks who vote for Obama, too. But I'm not sure it matters in the end -- a Democratic primary is different than a general election.

Obama is outpolling Clinton against McCain in national polls (RCP has it Obama +3.8, Clinton +2.2).

And if these are Democratic primary voters, than the Republican primary voters are probably worse. Not that we'd know that until we saw a serious black Republican presidential candidate, if that happens before my grandchildren are dead.

Nice try, Glas.
It is, however, pure conjecture.
The fact we have in front of us, is as you say, the significant amount of Democrats who based their vote on racism.

James, before you dispatch this topic as a complete waste of your time, you might check the Kentucky exit polls. There's a really, strikingly large percentage of white people admitting that race was a factor in their vote down there. The sample size is a lot larger than one.

And if these are Democratic primary voters, than the Republican primary voters are probably worse. Not that we'd know that until we saw a serious black Republican presidential candidate, if that happens before my grandchildren are dead.

That makes no impression on OTB and its readers?

Well, let's examine who it is they're interviewing, here... Democrat primary voters.
I thought Democrats were ABOVE race, and that they can't be racist. What's up with that?

Would you vote for David Axelrod if he ran directly instead of by proxy??

Just out of curiosity, is no one startled to read the quotations of people who out-and-out say they won't vote for him because he's black?

I am only mildly surprised and only because it happened at a party Leslie Stahl would attend. One would think they would vet guests for political correctness in such situations.

I have been to Chancellor's parties for visiting VIPs where B-list attendees would make inappropriate utterances just to get noticed, so no, I am not shocked.

Then too, I have to reserve judgement because the woman may have been quoted out of context. Well, that's what they say when Rev. Wright or Michelle Obama say something controversial.

It is somewhat disappointing there are people who make such statements and have such feelings but I'm not startled by it. The fact that it comes from a New York liberal doesn't surprise me either. It's all show for those types isn't it?

For me it's his politics not his color. But I don't see him as a black man either. Isn't his mother white? Why is someone considered black instead of white in this case? I don't get it.

I do believe it is the press who makes the most of race in this election process. It's a story they will continue to play even if the rest of the country doesn't care.

Just out of curiosity, is no one startled to read the quotations of people who out-and-out say they won't vote for him because he's black?

Nope. Then again, I've lived a large part of my life in the South, where people are a bit more frank about that kind of thing.

Given national opinion polls which show that the man is a favorite to beat a white war hero in November's presidential election -- and is currently beating a white woman with every conceivable advantage, including having been married to a popular white president -- I'm just focused on the big picture.

The bottom line is that a biracial man named "Barack Hussein Obama" is the odds-on favorite to be the next president of the United States. That some unidentified woman at a dinner party says she won't vote for a black man is less interesting in comparison.

Look, this is so friggin' obvious that it's almost insulting to have to say it, but here's what's going to happen if Obama is the candidate:

1.) 95% of African-Americans are going to vote for him because he's black.

2.) 15% of whites are going to vote against him because he's black.

3.) Stahl is 100% certain to use those numbers as proof that white people are racists.