Yeah, that's exactly what I think about it...that Obama has become the victim of a general social dysfunction.

Obama grew up in a bi-racial family. That gives him a totally different slant on it than most people have. He does not cleave to either one side or the other of the great mental divide. He finds it natural to walk both sides simultaneously.

I know a family like that. They are a White couple from Montreal who had no children, and they adopted two Black children (at a very young age) and have brought them up without raising any issues about "race". Those two are in their teens now. Being around them I noticed the ease with which they relate to being who they are....not Black, not White, but just people among other people. What a gift! Now, this is what will happen eventually in a society where intermarriage between races eliminates the feeling of "us and them" that presently exists and divides people.

When you have "us and them", you have fear.

Obama grew up without feeling that he was one or the other. He was both.

But when he tries to bring that unified consciousness to a society where most people still think in terms of Black/White division...he runs right into a brick wall...and the media exacerbates the problem! You had the ludicrous situation where some Blacks didn't think he was "Black enough" (He doesn't talk in exaggerated ghetto patois!)...while all the Whites referred to him simply as "a Black man", although he is half White!!!!!

How stupid can it get? He is neither a Black man nor a White man, he's a man. Period. A man.

Get flippin' OVER the race thing, America!!!! Grow up.

If Obama gets elected, he will not be the first Black man to get elected president. He will be the first man elected president who was mature enough to realize that it doesn't matter what racial heritage a man came from who gets elected president.