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Want further disappointment Obamanots ? Ponder the fact that while he predictably gravitates to the political center, he does not at all consider himself to be African American. Just look at his last quoted line about his racial composition/identity- alluded to in caption. Obama's being an African-American was a contrivance of the media, the far left and of most African Americans themselves, all of whom used every minute they could to refer to him as such. He always knew that he was bi-racial and had more influenced developmental life experience with white people than with actual African-Americans - those with roots to slavery. He knows that his wife and children are African-Americans but he skillfully played that card for himself for all it was worth in the Democratic Primary before all but abandoning it in the General Election. He is indeed a brilliant Chicago politician and I believe he will do a great job as President, but he will never be the "Progressive" many had hoped for.
