It took the Clintons to make Obama black

This presidential election is friggin awesome. If there wasn't so much at stake it would be hilarious. No more than 3 months ago the media claimed that Obama wasn't black enough. Now after he's won South Carolina he may be too black. Are we serious? Did his DNA change?

Maybe it was just me but after Iowa the Clintons (because it is both of their candidacies) just lost it. They got scared and resorted to underhanded tactics that were and are unnecessary. Hillary crying to get the females to vote for her. Bill blatantly attacking Obama and even distorting quotes. Wrong, wrong, wrong! What sent my support from Hillary was the fairytale speech. Not because of the fairytale part because listening to it he really played on racial predjudice. It came off as are you going to let this black guy beat up on my white wife. As one who doesn't create racism haphazardly it came as a shock to me. From then on Obama was the black candidate.

After Hillary won New Hampshire I started to hear from a lot of white women that they didn't want to miss the opportunity to elect the first woman president so they voted for Hillary. This kinda bothers me because it's developing as a would you rather have a white woman president or a black man president? Which is wrong, it should be who is best equipped to lead the nation.

Yes I know women have been discriminated against in this country but they don't even remotely come close to what black people had going against them and still do. How many negative images of white women do we see on television everyday? How many of black men? Yes we believe we are intelligent and liberal enough to separate Barack from the hoodlums that did the drive by but racial predjudice exists. The image of the black man in this country isn't the best one (partially due to unfair stereotypes, partially due to niggas).

Since the ideas of Hillary and Barack are very similar other issues are at the forefront. Who would make the better leader? In my opinion Barack would be better at working with congress and foreign leaders to get things done, however I believe that the final compromises wouldn't sufficiently satisfy any involved. Hillary on the other hand would demand what she wants causing deadlock and massive hostillity resulting in far fewer things getting done but those that do manage to get done will be to her satisfaction. Just have to decide which road you would like for the country to go down.

Now the messages of change and reconciliation are being dismissed because now Obama is the black candidate. If you let the media tell it, he's of, for and about black people. Never mind that he was raised by his white momma. Never mind that his dad is an immigrant who just so happens to be from Africa. Never mind that he grew up in Hawaii, far from any real urban area. Obama isn't as "black" as Tiger Woods.

There's no surprise that all of a sudden black people are rallying behind Obama, even black republicans. Not because they now think that white people will vote for him. Because he's getting attacked. Of all the faults of black people I am happy that we are rallying behind Obama because we all know its wrong to try to keep a good black man down.

Even the media is joining the foray stating that Latinos probably won't vote for Obama because they know more about Clinton and they don't relate to a black candidate. To the Latino readers, yes the media thinks you all are that stupid. If anything Obama has more in common with latinos than blacks because his father is an immigrant who came to the US (from a poor country) for a better life. How most latino voters have more in common with an elite white woman than the son of an immigrant is beyond me. I'm not saying they need to automatically vote for him any more than black people do, but don't assume just because the last name is Clinton that they have your best interest in order. If anything Barack is more lenient on illegal immigrant (grinding my teeth) than Hillary. Don't be bamboozled.

When party heads and congressmen are coming out against the negativity that the Clintons are spewing, it's serious because they are the annointed ones in the party. It's not like Obama is Romney, McCain or Huckabee, then you go for the jugular. He's a comrade. I'm also a bit tired of the media saying that Obama isn't supposed to fight back. You can only be poked so many times before you turn around and smack the snot out of someone. And it is unfair, regardless of what his campaign has released or whether the media is casting Hillary in a negative light. Before the Clinton onslaught I never heard of Obama blatantly and with great hostility attack Hillary, unlike Bill's rants.

I don't want to see Hillary win the nomination like this. They need to get it together quickly. First and foremost the negativity isn't needed and it feeds into what Barack has been saying from the begining, that we need a break from attacking each other and work towards the betterment of the country. There are a lot of people out there who hate Hillary already, the Clintons don't need to make enemies of their largest minority voting block when they don't have to.

After Iowa Hillary could have easily won the same states without all the attacks. People want to see her elected because she does inspire hope and determination. People like me, who live in DC are sick (and tired) of Dems Vs. GOP all day every day. We're tired of nothing getting done and blatant attacks on everybody and everything. The country has gone to complete hell and Bill is ranting against Obama, lets get some priorities straight.