Dude, what a lame perspective!

You are the one elevating trivia and masquerading it as critical insight. You are trying to say that others dwell on trivia so, since they do, we must because we somehow are better than they are because we don't dwell on trivia . . . so let's dwell on trivia and prove that we don't do it like they do it.

If we had the sort of dirt on the republicans that they have on Biden (who sucks by the way), then we'd have ads out there doing exactly the same thing. And don't pretend we wouldn't. Obama and his campaign is as savage as any other political machine, it's just that his fawning fans think he's the second coming of Christ, the spotless lamb of God. The only reason he might ever hold back (not that he actually does) would be because it'd score political points. Nothing is not political.

Lame article. . . and the title sucks too (tries too hard and ends up contrived and feeble . . . go back to school).

Let's face it, the celebration of a minority (a rich, well-educated one admittedly) possibly becoming the president and thereby signaling something about America we all want to be true is also tokenism. But we are okay with that.

I did not grow up in the USA, but I have lived here for a few decades. I am still amazed by the deeply seated fear and emotions associated with the guilt of having had slaves here (I don't have that guilt and frankly think the issue is maintained by it and not resolved by it). I see the emotion surrounding the Obama nomination as a catharsis of American white guilt and thus as a form of tokenism; a hope for a future in which White people can finally absolve themselves of the sins of their forebears. Obama is the altar on which this absolution will be performed.

What a complete wanker!

The sustained need to look for ever new ways to label something as racist IS the problem. A lot of bad things were done in the past. Nero used to burn Christians on stakes to light his parties (so at least a couple of ancient writers claim), but you don't see anyone freaking out about lighting up their barbeques with those big torches you stick in the ground. The Jews were gassed at Auschwitz, but no one seems to be against farting. Stop bitching about the past, and do something in present.

Fairbloodydinkum!

So just what was the thesis of this article? There may be a function, but no real thesis. The function seems to be to attempt to say something negative and mask it (poorly) as observation. What actually happens, though, is that the article ends up flopping on the floor with a dull thud, helped along by (A) no particular point (B) weak attempt to somehow tie together a pregnant 17yr old and a costly hurricane (C) feebly bitchy remarks about Cindy McCain's clothes . . . CLOTHES (!!!) are we really talking about clothes, dear me, how sad is that?! (D) some weird comment about money and sticks and asses that seemed to wreak of the very thing it evoked.

Did you sneak this past your editor as some kind of intern's prank?