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Originally Posted by loquitur
don't know about you guys, but I find the obsessive focus on race to be profoundly depressing.
Obama is a very, very impressive guy. He's also a conventional big-city left-wing social engineer. You may or may not care for that, but that's what makes the world go 'round. That his skin is black is not an especially important consideration, and I find it distasteful that so many people think that's the sum and be-all of his candidacy. It's not. Take him for the person he is, not for the race he is.
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I'm not aware of an obsessive focus on race.
What I see is that the Democratic party looks different than the Republican party and is more reflective of the country and that is noteworthy.
A woman, a black man, (and an Hispanic man until several weeks ago) among the Democratic candidates as opposed to five old white Republican males does not go unnoticed.
But their race and gender hardly defines their candidacies.