I might be wrong, Don, but I think what really bothers Doug about Obama is not that he's Black (well, half Black)....but that he's a Democrat! ;-) If it was a White guy in Obama's place...a White guy who spoke exactly as Obama speaks and acted exactly as Obama acts, then I think Doug would feel the same way about that guy as he does about Obama. He would consider him "arrogant". Doug is probably incapable of assessing ANY Democrat in an unbiased way.

But you wouldn't have an opportunity then to tar Doug with the implied label of "racist", would you? ;-) And that wouldn't be nearly as much fun, would it? I mean, hey, just take that knife, stick it in, and twist it, right? How convenient. You couldn't do that if Obama was just a regular White man. You could if he was a woman, though. Or a Native American. Or a Jew. Then the same opportunity would be there for putting DougR into a neat little damnation jar of perceived and politically unacceptable prejudice.

I don't consider Obama arrogant, by the way. I like him. He seems very reasonable to me. I've never seen a more reasonable or intelligent or well spoken man as president of the USA, and I don't give a hoot WHAT colour he is, because what difference could it possibly make?

I do disagree with some of his policy decisions, but that's another matter. When it comes to the man himself, I like him.