Feburary 29th

Do you feel the US is ready for an African American president or will the majority still be prejudice?

I think the US is ready for an African American president, I just don't think the Us will be ready for Barack Obama. The majority aren;'t going to have prejudice, he just needs to focus more on appealing to the African American demographic.

First of all- I don't think Barack Obama needs to worry about people being prejudice against him. If they were outright attacking him for being black, it would hurt their image. Joe Biden, anyone? 'I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy'. I'm surprised he's still in the presidential race after the public outlash against that comment. And Rush Limbaugh's comment about Michael J. Fox, earlier this year. That one hurt him badly. I don't think anyone is going to sacrifice their public opinion by speaking out against Barack's skin color- we've seen the consequences. Hello, it's not like we haven't notcied that the man is black. And some of the greatest leaders of our time have been black-MLK, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandella, OPRAH. I really don't think the race factor will hurt him anyway- it may even help him.

Barack doesn't really need to worry about appealing to white voters- he needs to focus on the black ones. As bad as it sounds, his problem isn't that he's too black, it's that he isn't balck enough. The African American demographic can't relate to him at all- and with their growing numbers, he may face a potential issue. There was even an opinion piece on this very issue on CBS Sunday Morning- the opnion being that his lack of black shouldn't be affecting people's opinions of him the way it is.

I think the Us is ready for a black president, we just aren't ready for Barack Obama. What we need right now is a strong personality to get us out of the multitude of problems we're in now- not someone who doesn;t really have strong opinions or any type of plan whatsoever. He's getting by on the fact that he's good looking, personable, and people are intruiged by his skin color. He frankl;y isn't all that strong and we don't really know what he stands for because he hasn;t made it known. He doesn't strongly advocate his opnions or what he'll do for this country at all. JFK was the same way, and as much as people liked him because he was good looking and personable, he was not all that great of a president- that's what we'll be headed for with Barack Obama.

Barack Obama needs some serious campaign reconstruction if he thinks he;ll have a chance of presidency. He needs to appeal to the African American voters and let us know his views before he can continure. America is ready for an American American, Barack just needs to pull his weight.