"The Republicans are against anything Obama does mainly because he is a black president."

I don't think that's really it, Stringsinger. I think they're against anything he does because he's a Democratic president. ;-) The fact that he's black is merely convenient for them, because it frightens a fair number of people in the Republicans' support base, but the key problem for them isn't that he's black...it's that he's a Democrat! If he (or she) were a white Democrat, they'd be against everything he does just as much as they are against Obama...specially if it were Hillary Clinton who were president. Republicans are rabidly hostile to Hillary Clinton above all others, and she's undeniably white. So is Al Gore, and they detest Al Gore.

Nope, the problem isn't that he's black at all, it's that he's NOT Republican. Now, the fact that he's black helps raise those old insecurities amongst Republicans, of course... ;-) It would also help if he had facial hair like Ahmadinejad or Osama and was butt ugly too, and it would help if he was an avowed atheist, a divorced man, a single man or openly gay...but you can't have everything, can you?