Give us some names of worthy candidates please. In your opinion no black man can rise up without being a “fine product of affirmative action”. Obama was the first black president of Harvard Law Review. Quite an accomplishment I would say and one based on merit. Then he rises quickly to become a US Senator and someone who is bringing Americans together. Were you on law review? Are you a fast riser to that degree? Give me a break you probably voted for Bush twice. I would call that name recognition/socio-economic affirmative action.

Alas (as an outsider watching American politics) what strikes me is the general inadequacies or inexperience of the candidates with the possible exception of Romney.

Good heavens, 300 million people and this is the best the system can produce.

Truth is Hillary would never be in the running if she had not been married to Bill. Huckabee is a buffoon with a twickle in his eye. McCain is over the hill and, one suspects, sometimes far away.

And, of course, Obama would be nowhere without his black face and the frisson of excitment lefties get when thinking that they are helping to elect the first black president. A fine product of affirmative action I suspect.

A white man with Obama’s lack of experience, vacuity of ideas and far left tendencies would never have been so indulged. (Read his book – Pomposity of Title – and see for yourself.)

Even white right wing scribblers as this article attests are being suckered by the Obama nonsense.

Sadly there is no finer example of the decline of America than the current crop of presidential candidates.

Doesn’t that kinda vitiate the post’s point?

I don’t think this is the reason why Obama is not popular with Latinos and Asians. Minorities, oppressed or otherwise, usually posit themselves against the mainstream majority and seek to establish an understanding and mutuality with it. Latinos, Asians, Afrian-Americans, are all competing against each other for attention, recognition, acceptance, and prominence. They are not likely to be too eager or motivated to boost one minority leader. They are not likely to give the “other” minority the gift of prominence. They are very conservative in the way they exercise their relative power vis-a-vis the majority, and calculate how best their interests can be augmented.

Most people usually end up doing and choosing what is in their best interests, not what is fashionable or glittering.

Last night was a DISASTER for Obama. The media won’t say it, but it was. He won NO important states, sans a tiny win in Missouri and lost in CA, which is very representative of American. The Asians and Latinos don’t fall in love with an Empty Suit with naive rhetoric.

I also hope the success of his candidacy, along with that of Hillary Clinton, put to bed the ongoing notion that America is so poisonously racist or poisonously paternalistic as always depicted by our detractors here and abroad.

White Dems voted overwhelmingly for Obama — if “racism” still exists and is alive and well in America — it is certainly among the Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics. They are the ones who voted overwhelmingly along racial lines. But the fact that most of the non-white cultures on earth are still immersed in overt racist culture is a tale never revealed by the white-loathing media of the world. America — at least white America seems to have moved beyond this if voting patterns are any indication (and they certainly ARE an indication — one of the best).