Irene, I was too hasty. If by your statement that "the whites see him as black" means that White people consider Barack Obama's racial identity to be Black, then I agree with you.

But if you mean by that that a large {enough} number of White people won't vote for Obama because of his racial identity I disagree with you. The notion that White people won't vote for a Black person as president is part of the strategy that the Clintons were hoping for in the Democratic primaries. As you can see, that strategy and the notion that Black people wouldn't vote for a Black person who is mixed race failed.

Btw, I believe that it was rather stupid for anyone to believe that African Americans wouldn't vote for a person who is mixed racial, given that so many African Americans have mixed racial ancestry.

{And with that I hope to go back to lurking on this thread. At the very least, I chose not to address questions about the definition of who is or is not African American, including the silly notion that only people who had ancestors who were slaves in the USA can be considered African American. That was another failed divide & conquer primary strategy. By that definition, I'm not African American. As I said, that's just silly}.