Comments on: The World’s Most Idiotic Question

By: Adam Herman

Adam Herman — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:30:37 +0000

Eh, the first I heard it mentioned was on Colbert Report, where somebody I hadn’t heard of before who was African-American said that Obama hadn’t shared the African-American experience because he spent a lot of time overseas and wasn’t poor.

Whether or not it’s true, it’s also irrelevant. I can confidently say that we’ll have a black President in our lifetimes. Perhaps a few. But I can guarantee that none will have lived that experience she’s talking about except in their youths. The Presidency is an office for achievers, so anyone who gets that office, their “black experience” will have ended in some people’s eyes the day they went off to Harvard or Oxford.

By: goalkeeper

goalkeeper — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:50:52 +0000

I think the real answers to obtain are “Who is raising the issue of his color” and “Why are they raising it?”

I think it is not African-Americans who are REALLY raising the issue. I think the issue is being raised to drive a wedge between Obama and some African Americans. Just to reduce his support.

I don’t think it is being done by a demoractic opponent. It’s probably a white republican.

Just a guess, but I do not hink it is a wild one.

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:12:04 +0000

Obama is just calling the kettle a spade.

By: Balakirev

Balakirev — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:08:51 +0000

I really think that any person calling themselves a journalist who comments on a presidential candidate’s appearance, or ponders questions about whether they’re black, or white, or brown, or manly, or womanly enough, ought to be forced to perform before a Barnum and Bailey audience for a year as JoJo the Chicken-head Eating Geek.

Oh, wait a minute. That’s how I feel about all Beltway pundits. My bad.