[Nyela]

Originally Posted by marquiss

If your arguement against voting for Obama were that he does not support issues that affect the black community or our concerns or not as well as the other candidates, then I feel your arguement, but this talk about him not being "black enough" "uncle tom" "half-white" are baseless and inconsequential for whether he should be President or not...

Very well said. What many fail to understand, is the president has to be a president to and for the people. Not just black people. In order to win an election, he must focus on people as a collective. If he were to appear as some have asserted he should, he wouldn't have a modicum of a chance of winning the election.

Secondly, with him having a black wife, black family members and black children, I find it astonishing how so many can confidently declare this man to not care about blacks and what effects black people. How could he not care. He has to look in the face of blackness EVERY DAY. He can't escape that.