I don't have a vote in this - not my country, thank heaven. But I can't see any reality in the statement that if Obama were a white man, the candidate would be Hillary.

I liked and respected Hillary Clinton at the beginning of her campaign, but the spite shown to Obama put me right off her.

The intellectual strength and the grace and idealism he's show has made me (cautiously) like him. Cautiously, because I don't know enough about him and his record.

After all, I liked Clinton too, the male one that is, until he refused a pardon to a brain-damaged man on Death Row when he was governor and running for the Democratic nomination.

But so far, Obama looks like a decent man.