Looks like our guy is proving them wrong, eh?

I'm not black but if I was I'd be proud that the best presidential candidate, best run campaign and best outlook for the country's future is a black person.

Actually, I'm a white woman (about Hillary's age too) but sadly this white woman is not the best choice.  If she were Obama and Obama was Hillary, I'd be so proud that such a great candidate was also a woman.

My point, if I have one, is women and black people have been voting for the best choice among a slate of white men all of our lives.  It's nice to have a different choice this time.

He injected race into the campaign when his campaign accused the Clinton's of injecting race into the campaign - which they hadn't done much to Obama's dismay.

It's the Rove thing - run against people's strengths. One of the things the Clintons have going for them is decades of work on behalf of others and the degree to which they have been stalwart allies of the African American community.

So, Obama's campaign began race baiting - because we're liberals and we deplore racism. Gullible people bought that line of BS. Sad. But human.

As Obama pointed out, had he just been another white guy elected to the senate, he wouldn't gotten book deals out of it, or been asked to give a speech at the national convention.

Excellent diary, sir. Kudos to you.

until the candidate discovered that he wasn't going to win on substance

I still say -
put both candidates behind a curtain - have a woman read both candidates' words, then a man read another set of both candidates' words. Look at the BLACK AND WHITE print on paper that compares these two individuals' activities and ACCOMPLISHMENTS that support their ability to handle the office of POTUS.

When both race and gender bias are taken from the equation, then we will have a fair and balanced election - not before.

Just curious if you think you are injecting race by writing about this?  Because you have the option to write about why you think Barack Obama is the most qualified to be our next President.  Or you could write about why you think Barack understands economic policy better than Clinton.

I have an honest question for you.

As a black man, does it bother you at all to see the long list of honorable public servants that have worked on behalf of the African American community completely savaged by the Obama anger machine?  When the Obama bus drove over Tavis Smiley, was that finally crossing a line?  Or do you think all these people and their work deserve to be denigrated?

have both been predominant in this Dem. primary.  Look at our candidates. Equal time has been spent in the media about both issues.  Obama has said that he wanted to run his campaign as post-racial, and I lauded him for that.  But when he started to say things like "hoodwinked. . . bamboozled" in his speeches to appeal to the African-American votes, I became suspect.  Is that post-racial?  I have been disappointed in Obama's attacks on the Clintons' work on behalf of the African-American community--perhaps even more could have been done by them, but they did do more than most.  But I thought, OMG, he's alienating a big percentage of the Democratic party against other Dems.  I respect Hillary for not bringing up the gender issue.  She did not give any speeches about sexism or misogyny that has been rampant in this campaign.  She to me has been running a "post-gender" campaign and has been running primarily on her policies and experience, which I value in a candidate.  I also respect Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia because he endorsed a candidate after interviewing them both and agreeing with Hillary's solutions for dealing with inner-city problems.  He was open-minded about it, and based his decision, not on race, but on policy recommendations.  This is what we as voters need to examine carefully and base our vote on what the candidate proposes and if we agree with that or not.

Isn't the title of your diary something you should be asking yourself?