Would Obama's campaign have gone anywhere if he were 100% caucasian?

[Mahkato]

From this article:

Obama has run a brilliant campaign, is a mesmerizing speaker, and has captured the yearnings and hopes of millions of people. He has transcended, in his appeal, race, ethnicity, age and sex. But the fact is that he is experienced in running no enterprise and yet seeks to run the largest enterprise in the world. He is virtually inexperienced in government, domestic and certainly foreign policy — all of which should be at the heart of any president's expertise — and yet the same could really be said of Lincoln, and to some degree Franklin Roosevelt.


But somewhere, somehow, what Churchill referred to as "a little mouse of thought" must be considered: That is, if Obama were white, given his lack of experience, he would not be in the lead for his party's nomination for President of the United States. Commentators should have the intellectual honesty to note this, as well as the fact that it might be, in effect, a good thing. His candidacy, with all of his lack of experience stands as a stark contrast and home for those people who are fed up or, to be charitable, disenchanted with Washington's business-as-usual, and the usual group of subjects simply playing musical chairs in the running of this country.

What do you think?

 

[quantized]

Hmm... what if Obama is a girl?

 

[kickzman]

Isn't he half white.

 

[Banana]

I don't really get this "experience" thing. Look at the current president. We basically have a village idiot who depends on cabinet to make decision for him.

I imagine that if Obama get the presidency, we'll be having a kid who depends on cabinet to make decision for him.

IOW, a vote for Obama is a vote for status quo.

 

[tamor]

He is still a man, so man vs. woman. Yep it still would have been a force to reckon with

 

[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

Hmm... what if Obama is a girl?

She would be unstoppable. The automatic black vote, the woman vote, the change vote, the liberal vote.

Now if that black woman was somehow republican but close enough to get Democrat

Complete domination in every state.

 

[EvilEngineer]

No, his campaign would have gone no where. Because a 100% white guy would be in the same shoes as the rest of them were. Obama is in the position he is today because of the stupid Presidential American Idol syndrome... "Ohh he's a black man, thats neat, I'll vote for him."

 

[Mystile]

If Obama were white, he'd end up like Edwards.

 

[James Madison]

No, his campaign would have gone no where. Because a 100% white guy would be in the same shoes as the rest of them were. Obama is in the position he is today because of the stupid Presidential American Idol syndrome... "Ohh he's a black man, thats neat, I'll vote for him."

Agreed.

 

[Laja]

O-Bomb-a is just like all the rest of them (but RP), a lying politician. If he were white, he'd be in the Presidential candidate trash bin by now.

 

[Banana]

Why not Jesse Jackson? Alan Keyes?