A relative of mine sent me the following statement about Obama, which followed complaints about Obama's connections to Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Whoopi Goldberg, among others.:
Are the American people so blind??? If this was a white rich man, he would have been discredited and thrown to the wolves. Why are people so hesitant to judge a man (good or bad) because he happens to be African American? (That's correct political speak, because I believe that Senator Obama is actually from Africa.)
The reason this Swedish-American white guy (that's me) likes Obama has very little to do with his race, although I obviously find him to be a very attractive biracial man . (Actually, African American is more accurate for Obama than most blacks, because his dad was from Kenya while his mother was from Kansas, which makes him literally an 'African American'.) I do think his racial identity has been a political plus and not a negative, for perhaps the first time in American history.
But Obama is so much more than that. As I put it elsewhere recently, "Obama rivals Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford in his character, while at the same time matching the charisma of Reagan, Clinton, and Kennedy, the intelligence of Nixon, the courtesy of George H.W. Bush, and the political skills of L.B.J." He's even like George W. Bush in having an intelligent, beautiful wife and two lovely daughters!
Barack Obama is a very special presidential candidate in so many ways. That's why there is so much excitement and support for him around the country and the world (even if he does have the biggest ears I've ever seen).
Ps. I am so glad to see Colin Powell and Warren Buffett join the rest of us deluded, brainwashed, blind Obama supporters.
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