The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

scaeagles · 01-28-2010, 10:37 AM

Ummm....I think I mentioned that I heard this on the radio. Didn't come up with it all on my own. Didn't claim to.

Even as I think more about it, I still don't see your interpretation, and if disagreeing with you makes me intellectually lazy, then so be it. The fact of the matter is that his statement shows that he thinks of Obama in terms of his race as something primary in his definition of the man. I don't understand the importance of it, personally, beyond the historical aspect that he is black and was elected. Why is he still viewed in that way? Is it like Reid, who views him as a black man with no discernable negro dialect Or like VP Biden, who saw him as a "clean" black man?

01-28-2010, 10:37 AM	#11
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Ummm....I think I mentioned that I heard this on the radio. Didn't come up with it all on my own. Didn't claim to. Even as I think more about it, I still don't see your interpretation, and if disagreeing with you makes me intellectually lazy, then so be it. The fact of the matter is that his statement shows that he thinks of Obama in terms of his race as something primary in his definition of the man. I don't understand the importance of it, personally, beyond the historical aspect that he is black and was elected. Why is he still viewed in that way? Is it like Reid, who views him as a black man with no discernable negro dialect Or like VP Biden, who saw him as a "clean" black man?
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