Will We Have a Black President?
If Obama loses it will be for two reasons, neither one of which has anything to do with the issues that may or may not separate the two presidential candidates:
The first is that too many registered voters are not ready to accept a Black president. Call it prejudice, that which it probably is, although not the “string ‘em up” variety. And this sort of thing doesn’t show up in the polls where people don’t admit to this, as we saw in the NH polls that had Obama well ahead of Hillary, only to go on and lose badly.
The second is that too many remain unconvinced that Obama, of a Kenyan father and a liberal, free thinking spirit of a mother, who left Kansas, our country’s heartland, to live in Indonesia (a Moslem country), and eventually, following her divorce from Barack’s Black Kenyan father, marry an Indonesian, are not convinced that Obama is an American like them, proud to wear the flag pin, proud to salute the flag and all that sort of thing.
Obama needs somehow to overcome both obstacles if he would win the presidency in November. And it’s not clear that he can do so, nor even that he is fully aware of the problem and working at doing so.
Of course neither obstacle lies in McCain’s path. He is white, and he is an American (although born in the Panama Canal Zone), and comes from a line of American heroes as well as being an American hero himself.
