That must be why you find it a bother to answer questions from the “board” here. You think we’re waiting for you to die.

Education is a life-long process.

It doesn’t take a life-long process to know why 2+0 is still 2.

To explain what someone means, you have to know what they mean.

Given that it will take your entire life for you to know what I mean, I am obviously going at a faster pace here.

Bookworm, Is it off limits for me to tell him to shut up?

It’s unlikely it would do anything regardless.

. Unfortunately for us all, politics may not be the best way to choose governmental leaders

Do you prefer religious and Christian ways to choose leaders of the government, then.

Some people want to talk policy and voting record, etc.

While others want to talk about they believe in Obama because Obama believes in them.

But you see, racism has reentered the picture.

The institutional racism of Chicago is born out by the examples of both Michelle and Obama Barack.

Hmmmm…just how is Obama like JFK?

In the simplest fashion, that Democrats believe Right wingers will assassinate him once he proves to be making “Real Changes” tm, Danny.

(and, yes, I concede that it’s hard nowadays to imagine how Harding could once have been considered a sex pot by the newly enfranchised women voters).

Power draws in the young women.That has always been true, regardless of what else was going on.

It’s a DNA thing.

Obama is not my first choice for president in 2008.

I’ll admit there are limits — the fact that David Duke was young, handsome and well-spoken didn’t help him (and thank Goodness for that). I suspect that young, handsome and well-spoken analogy only works on the lefter side of the spectrum.

Didn’t I sat that?

Hmmmm…just how is Obama like JFK?

Do you refer to JFK’s heroic war record (PT-109), initiation of foreign wars (Vietnam, Bay of Pigs), overthrow and assassination of foreign leaders (Dhiem), supply-side economics and tax reduction, devoted anti-communism, being a serial philanderer and sex maniac, his illegal drug use?

Just asking.

Bookworm, Is it off limits for me to tell him to shut up?

As far as black need for a leader, I don’t think it’s as strong as it was prior to the 60s. But Obama is a black JFK: charismatic, good looking, well educated, young wife and sweet little kids, and able to deliver an emotional speech. He is a throwback Democrat with political correctness to span the time gap: black/ white Islam/ Christian. He has wide appeal as a political leader. Unfortunately for us all, politics may not be the best way to choose governmental leaders. Some people want to talk policy and voting record, etc.

But you see, racism has reentered the picture. While some people want to know about foreign policy etc., others want to know if a black man can become the President of the US. Both are valid questions.

With the exception of a few guys in it for easy sex, the black people that I knew had nothing but contempt for these girls, recognizing that infatuation for the condescending, racist paternalism that it was. These were the same kind of whiteys that would tell a really bright black woman from Gary that I knew that she should give up her dreams of medicine because, being “black”, she was better suited to education or social service. In their own minds, they were being open-minded, loving and helpful, I’m sure.

Unfortunately, when people make sweeping generalizations about black people needing or doing this or that, it brings all these ugly memories flooding back.

Sure, black Americans have had charismatic leaders (Frederick Douglas), just like white Americans, too, have had charismatic religious and political leaders (Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan). Moreover, both black and white charismatic leaders have show extreme diversity in views – W.E.B. DuBois was not Booker T. Washington was not Jim Jones, just as populist preacher Fr. Charles Coughlin was not Billy Graham.

Enough with race-based generalizations, already.

I never thought about it, but you’re absolutely right with regard to the perceived need for a black leader. That may explain why other communities don’t have their Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons. I need to mull over very seriously what you’ve said here.