Posted by EnySpree:

I'm watching C-span right now. Michelle Obama just finished speaking.......

I never ever saw a potential 1st lady speak this way.....even deeper than that.....I have never heard a woman, no matter what race or name they have, speak the way this woman does. She is downright scary.

She's a better speaker than Hillary. When Hillary was the 1st lady I don't remember her saying a WORD! Now she is a senator.......she had no experience before that, yet her campaign has been attacking Obama's "experience".

I'm so upset that Obama didn't win NY.....people said he could never win southern states, but he's winning more southern states and other "white" states handily. Kinda makes you look at this country a little different.

Anyway, Mrs. Obama is wicked. I listened to everything she said......one thing she said that took me back, was that her and Obama still have student loans to pay! They have about 3 years left. When was the last time you have heard a president that still has student loans to pay off? Its crazy.....

Hillary and Barack are both saying the same things. Its really about who do you trust. Its also about who can you relate to. Barack is black, but he's just as white. He was raised by his white mother and then his white grand parents in Kansas. He knows what it is to be american on alll levels. He wasn't rich or apart of any powerful circle of people. He is american.

The way the Obama's speak is real to me. Its not just politics. The Clintons have always said the right things. Bill has shown his ass in this campaign. Showing kind of a dark side. He has been kicking dirt and being nasty with it. Hillary just seems phoney.

Again, as far as issues, they both are saying the same things. I just can't see how anyone can sit and watch either family speak and not want run through a wall for the Obama family.

Mrs Obama is a beast.....she's just a first lady. She is a better candidate than Hillary. Sometimes you can forget that she is speaking for Barack.

I can't see a republican winning this election. Even if you are a hardcore republican. You can't deny what the democrats are saying in general. When the Obamas speak man.....how can you not feel what the democrats are saying.

Its just too ill. I'm not even a political guy. I hate politics. I have issues with the US goverment......still I think these Obama's are wicked. If you haven't done so yet? Try to catch them on C-Span.

Posted by arkrud:

I like Obama political program. But I cannot understand why he is considered minority candidate.
He is not African American for sure. White mother and Kenyan farther. Raised in Indonesia...
The color of the skin is irrelevant - I know people with black skin from Africa, India, Israel (they are Jews from Morocco), and US. So color means nothing.
Culturally he is white from South as most of US presidents were.
A lot of political spin and no substance

Posted by nixluva:

Posted by arkrud:

I like Obama political program. But I cannot understand why he is considered minority candidate.
He is not African American for sure. White mother and Kenyan farther. Raised in Indonesia...
The color of the skin is irrelevant - I know people with black skin from Africa, India, Israel (they are Jews from Morocco), and US. So color means nothing.
Culturally he is white from South as most of US presidents were.
A lot of political spin and no substance

Apparently you don't understand what those words mean here in America. If this was 1960 and you looked anything like Obama looks or Tiger woods for that matter, then your ass was "Negro" or "Colored". It's as simple as that. You got lumped into a group. If you by chance spoke spanish then you'd be subdivided into the hispanic group, but still a minority. The African Diaspora has given birth to a myriad of mixed race combinations wherever the slave trade took those Africans in the world. It doesn't change a thing if Obama's Father was from Africa and he is an American citizen, then he's an African American and part of a minority. That's how it is here.

People of mixed race be it African and Euro in particular were considered black, no matter what the actually complexion. IF they found out you had a black parent or even grandparent you'd be black no matter how light you looked. MOST so called African Americans have some degree of Euro DNA due to the high incidence of rape that went on during the 200+ years of slavery in the U.S. In every sense of the word Obama is a Minority. The way this country legally identified those of mixed race had always been to consider that person to be black or non-white. Thus most every African American today that has some mixed heritage is put into the same group, myself included. Just because my great grandfather was white, it hasn't made a bit of difference in how I have been perceived by the white majority in this country from the 60's thru to today. I look black outwardly and that's all that matters. I have a family that is all over the map in terms of skin tone. We go from black as night to pale as can be and at all times we've been classified as African Americans and part of a minority in this country. That's how it goes in this country.

P.S. The Native American blood we have in my family doesn't change things either.