First Black President? Who cares what color your skin is.

There is a question that has been bothering me lately.

What is Barack Obama portrayed as the first viable "black" candidate for the Presidency from a major political party?

After all, Barack is not 100% black.  His mother was white, and his father was black.  He was raised by his mother's white family.  At best, he is "bi-racial".

Yes, I know, he "looks" black.  But looking "black" doesn't make you "black".  Just ask Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, or Armstrong Williams.  Three black men who have been called unspeakable names and demeaned and treated far worse than Barack Obama ever was (or will be) because their "ideas" didn't conform to modern black liberal orthodoxy, despite the color of their skin.

To be honest, I really hate all this racial classification stuff.  I hate how the Federal Government collects all of this racial classification stuff.  If you knew the standards promulgated by the Office for Management And Budget in regards to race classification, you would shove an icepick in your temple.  I am tempted to on a regular basis.

I personally could care less if your skin is white, black, brown, yellow, purple or chartreuse.  I am more interested in what you think, how you think, and what you do with it.  You can't help your color, but you can help being stupid.

And at the end, that is my greatest fear for this country if Barack "Jimmy Carter II" Obama is elected President of the United States.  I just don't think he is that smart.  I am not talking book smarts, here, either.  We don't need the hauteur arrogance of a man who can read Demosthenes but can't explain him.

I am talking about good-old fashion common-sense smarts.  And I would think that after eight years of George W. Bush, Democrats would be loath to nominate one of their own who seems to just glide along.

And I think you can see that in the people he has chosen to associate with over the years.  Not just in that he chose to associate with them, but how he is so ready and willing to cast them aside when they are no longer useful to him anymore.  He chooses poorly, and corrects the mistake poorly.  I this he is nearly a mirror image of George W. Bush's management style in choosing subordinates.

These are not the attributes of a wise man.

Are we ready for more of this?