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After all, he's not really black, he's actually this "African African-American but not black because he's not the descendent of West African slaves" black, and he's out of touch with real "black" black culture and all, and well, he made his announcement to run for President and he didn't spend most of it telling us the 100-year old history of Springfield, Illinois' race riots, and well, you know, he's actually evolved as a politician, and wasn't nearly as good a speaker in the past as he is now, so what DOES that say about him?
Jeebus, get over your sensitive selves. You guys sound like Apple fanboys freaking out because someone dares to lay some factual critiques on Apple, Inc., its product line, or Steve Jobs. (For the record, I've been a Mac user since 1983, but I can't stand the fanboys.)
Sure, I had a problem with Dickerson's piece, but the article on the Springfield Race riot was actually pretty instructive to me and didn't in any way change my (very positive) impression of Obama. If anything, it helped educate me on some of my state capitol's history.
And this article on how he learned to be a natural is pretty good, in my opinion. I admire how he learned from his mistakes and quickly changed to become the rock start that he is now. How the hell is this a smear piece? I'm baffled.
