... is killing me inside.

"not someone I can personally relate to"

"not our kind of people"

"privileged"

"A lot of people around here just haven't spent much time with black people. When they get to know a black person, it's OK."

"Obama's fate in November may in part depend on his ability to better familiarize the more insular segments of white America with an under-reported but growing post-civil rights demographic: the well-educated black urban middle class."

This is tiring.

"@gill bates

You hit the nail right on the head. Hopefully this type of thought will prevail.

As for these ignoramuses who say "he ain't my kinda paypul", if they put McLame/Failin in, well...they DESERVE them. I guess 8 years of hell wasn't enough. God forbid we should have a president with intellect."

I really want to emphasize what you said: "God forbid we should have a president with intellect."

And hey, a true leader as well? Yowzah.

So some guy canning beans in a trailer thinks that he needs a president who's "his kind of people". Excuse me, does he think the McCains are "his kind of people". Does he really?

Can this dope with the beans marry a woman who buys $250,000 earrings? Is he the well connected son of an admiral? I think not.

And why do we need a president who is the equivalent of some dope in a trailer in terms of both mentality and education? Well in that sense I guess McCain fits the bill--fifth from the bottom of his class and all.

But really, it's about angry old white guys voting for other angry old white guys who are just as stupid as they are, and feeling resentful and vicious towards anybody who's done better in life in terms of being smart or well-educated, particularly if they are from a minority group.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, people are suspicious of Obama's life experiences and extensive travel because such is out of reach for them, and they actively resent his success. Money is okay, but too much book learnin' is a bad thing. Now look at McCain. He got rich and managed to stay stupid, just like "regular folks".

Poorly educated white Americans are pitiful

What a tragedy that poorly educated, working-class, white, small-town Americans will reject a truly smart, capable, good-hearted, visionary leader like Obama simply because they are trapped by prejudices that rule them almost like daemonic possession!

I can find ignorant statements made by any class, race, ethnicity or background.

The problem with people like you, is you assume that others see Obama as smart, capable, good-hearted and visionary. I may give him smart, the rest no.

Has he been an outstanding senator? No, he has been average. Is he good hearted? Ask Alice Palmer and others who's name he removed from ballots. Is he visionary? What vision? It's never spelled out.

I'm sorry, but saying the waters are going to lower because he's elected is just silly, and it turns people off.

So many people on the left mock and look down on people, then wonder why the get labeled as elitist. It's because you look down on people.

We're having the same problem as the founders did when they founded this great experiment - uneducated masses. They were afraid that uneducated masses would pick terrible leaders. Even with all the technology and information overload that we have today - people still go with their gut. Damn common sense or their own best interest, it's all about the hype.

Amazing

Barak Obama spent a considerable portion of his youth in poverty. He worked his own way to the top.

John McCain -- John Sidney McCain III -- is the son and grandson of admirals. He's American military aristocracy. And he married, as aristocrats often do, into serious money.

Any blue-collar voter who thinks McCain is more "people like us" than Obama has to be, I'm sorry, a complete goddamn moron.

-- Daniel Dvorkin

What years did Obama spend in poverty, much less considerable years?

It didn't happen. His step farther was upper middle class, his grandparents were not poor by any stretch of the imagination. When are these magical years of poverty supposed to be?

for the folks over at Fox News to start going on and on about Alaska is "really a kind of foreign country"...you know, like Hawaii...you know, where Obama grew up.

Surely Alaska is as "foreign" as Hawaii, isn't it?

Nahhhhh...it's just the Midwest with more critters to shoot at. That's all. Hawaii has palm trees and shit. Very foreign, and the palm trees must make people Muslim.

Alaska is America's true heartland! Yeeeh-haaah!

Listen to the OBonzo! nutjobs project their stupidity for forcing this ridiculous candidate on the ticket onto others!

It's "racism" (like no racism in 99% of the black vote going to OBonzo! and overnight the "First Black President" and his wife became Pa Kettle of the KKK) It's "hicks" (no prejudice there!) or Mommy (aka Hillary) isn't trying hard enough to save the leftwing albatrosses from themselves.

No dirtweeds,it's your own stupidity for shoving this crooked Empty Suit on the ticket come hell or highwater. Nothing could stop you. Not Super Tuesday, the ominious loss of every major battleground state , Catholics, the elderly and women voters.

It's not the fault of "small town" America for not buying into the empty rhetoric from a man who never accomplished jack squat for anyone but himself in his entire political career and his dreadful wife and eyebrow raising associates from Axelweed to Wright to Resko to Ayers..the list is indeed endless in disturbance.

You're morons.

Seriously. NC is at least a quarter black. Which means it's above average vs nationally. When I came here 12 years ago from the NY burbs, I had never seen a biracial married couple. But there were plenty down here. And the churches are more integrated here than up north. We even have black Jews, real Jews, Orthodox Jews.

The gold old boy I bowl with is a PhD electrical engineer who holds 3 patents. If anyone is a bigot its the retards who wear their liberal urban anarchist hipster flag and think that everything between San Francisco and the Upper West Side of Manhattan is the Planet of the Apes.

If everyone except you underemployed indie film buffs is too fucking stupid to participate in any election then why don't you work to take that away from us like the good little fascists you can't pretend you're not.