It wouldn't matter what race he was...the Republicans would hate him just as much. Remember how much they hated Bill Clinton? And Hillary Clinton? And Al Gore? It's hate on autopilot....just like Democrats automatically hate a Republican president or candidate. The one hate is a mirror image of the other. If weather was as easy to predict as bipartisan hatred is, we wouldn't need the weatherman! ;-D

The only thing that's different about the situation in Obama's case is that it's very convenient for hate purposes that he happens to also be half-black, that's all. Republicans would hate him just as much if he was all-white, but the half-black thing is one more handy aspect to the general approach of their supporters hatin' him, and that means it does play a useful part for propaganda purposes.

But on the other hand...it also plays a very useful part for Democrats...cos it helps secure the black vote for them and it also helps motivate all the white Democrats who want to see themselves as righteous defenders of racial equality heroically standin' up against that 400 years of oppression...and who are carryin' some historical guilt feelings over what happened back then. They can pat themselves on the back every time they defend Obama, cos they're not just defendin' a man....they're defendin' the entire historical cause of racial equality in America!!! The nightmare of slavery that haunts the American dream.

So, y' see? It's hugely convenient for BOTH the Right AND the Left that Obama is "black" (half-black). It allows 'em both to live out their dearest fantasies of moral righteousness and their mutual paranaoia to the max! It's a political wet dream for the 2 irreconcilable solitudes in a divided America.

Equally outta touch with reality in both cases.

Stop lookin' at him as a race profile and start lookin' at him as a man, folks, cos that is what he is...he's just another human being, period.

- Chongo