Letters to the Editor
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The Answer Is No
It is Obama's own fault that we have reached a point where Democrats can't learn to talk about race, since the Wright business dredged up a lot of stuff not far below the surface. Before the Wright flap, a lot of voters were willing to look at this guy since he seemed to be a new type of black politician -- not resentful or confrontational, from a very different "transracial" background.
All that has changed, since even though Obama does not himself appear to be resentful or confrontational, his wife, his preacher and others are very much in the old mold. These are associations that continue to the present -- Wright's replacement at the church, for example, is much the same as Wright. The upshot of all this is that, despite Obama's congenial personal manner, we don't really know what he thinks.
A rightwing friend of mine forwarded me an email the other day in the form of a poster, alerting the public to the menace (Obama) who threatens to "take down America from inside the White House." For the benefit of the mass of people who don't pay attention to the campaign until it gets down to the final two contestants, I suppose. But Obama and the Democrats ignore this kind of thing at their peril -- Obama is very strange to many people. Unless he can overcome that, he will lose decisively. I'm not very optimistic about it, which is one reason why I supported Hillary.