Parodite wrote:
Thanks Bro. The strange thing of writing a conspiracy theory down as an act of playfulness by reshuffling facts and see how they look afterwards is that I started to believe it myself.
I'm sure that race, group identity meant a lot to Obama for the reasons you mention. I have no Dr. Phil nanotech wired to his brain that sends me all his thoughts and motives in encrypted format (I'm sure the CIA would love to hire me if I had that tech), only a pretty good but still unreliable intuition.
I think he really wanted to be an all American president for all Americans. And be the first colored president that is. Being colored not as a tool for an agenda stuffed with cynical racial identity politics, but more like a crown that would prove that the US had overcome racism and that all are equal. Just as in the Martin Luther King dream where people are judged by their individual character and performance, not by the color of their skin, sex, religious background etc. I believe he really wanted this. That this also was and is his dream.
Such a dream however is easily destroyed when race-baiting and identity politics are pushed to the forefront by others because it keeps the old patient alive beyond expiration date. Suddenly it's all about race again, which is what Obama probably feared most. Add a white cop kills black guy to make sure it will be on the agenda for some more decades, unfortunately.
I think Obama won by his own superior rhetoric skills and crowd pleasing capabilities. Clinton didn't like loosing from him.
Sooner or later, all the best salesmen come to believe the fantasies they create! You're just a quicker study than most! 
I think those are pretty fair assessments. Whether Obama was more oppressed by white racists, the political establishment, or "the people who brought him to the prom," will be debated forever. I don't know if Obama, ever tried to decouple his wagon from the "black victimhood/white guilt/being on the right side of history" horse, but if he did, I think Obama "suddenly" learned what Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Star Parker, Jesse Lee Peterson, Deneen Borelli, Ken Hamblin, and others have talked about for decades.
Toe the official/politically acceptable "racial identity" line, and you are legitimately black. Speak as an individual, and you are no longer "black," but suddenly you become a house nigger, Uncle Tom, Oreo, sellout, etc.
I thought Obama was constrained by his own PR and marketing strategy more than anything else since day one. Six years later I heard a "black community leader" state exactly that during an interview. IIIRC, I heard some audio of Obama describing that during his college years he was very careful which minorities he associated with to avoid being viewed as a "sellout."
Politics, or administration is the forced, conflicted, mating of ideology and reality. There are yuge differences between the behavior of candidates and incumbents, and have been as long as I can remember, for good reason.
Projecting zipcode or personal cultural problems onto the entire nation may win one national office, but never seems successful in solving problems for the individuals or regions affected. For obvious reasons.
No problem, you are still eligible. We're all a bunch of mutts here. Here's a hint, don't tell anybody in SimpleMindedStan that your'e black or white, and chances are no one will notice. We're more enlightened than most!Simpleminded wrote:You have earned an unofficial honorary appointment to the Supreme Council of Wise Elders of SimpleMindedStan. Final approval is dependent upon DNA testing for racial purity.Parodite wrote: I'm out of Africa.
