Obama election: Blessing or Curse ?

Where are you going with this exactly? Are you saying that people voted for Obama solely due to his skin color, and that that is wrong (which I would agree with, it is wrong to vote for or against a candidate solely due to the candidate's race)? Or that because Obama is African American, he should have never gotten elected, and people should have voted for John McCain because he's the white guy?

I voted for Obama, campaigned for him in North Carolina during the primary and the general election, and I am 95 percent sure that I will vote for him again, although he has disappointed me to an extent. I don't think his race has any bearing on the way he has governed, I would feel the same way about him if he were a white man named Barry Dunham. Or to use an example from another ideology, I would write in one of my cats before I'd vote for Alan Keyes.

Historically speaking, Obama being the first African American President is pretty big, especially considering that Obama's own father wasn't even allowed to eat in restaurants with white people in some places. So in that way it's a blessing, just as it will be historically significant when we finally elect a woman. But again, no bearing on what kind of President he is.

 

I'm not sure what the opening premise is supposed to be about, besides something about "teh secks!1!1!" Could you clarify?