[lbo-talk] Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency

[John Thornton]

Jenny Brown wrote:
> >Obama's father was black, but his mother was "white." That makes him 
> "black" by U.S. racial standards, but it's a pretty weird convention, 
> isn't it?
>
> Yes, but that's the only sense in which anyone is white or Black, 
> weird convention.  Given that, his Blackness is not in question.
>
> >And, really, you don't think that Obama gets a break from liberals 
> and leftists because of his blackness? There's just no question about 
> it. You think Charles would be blanketing the Internet with 
> apologetics for John Kerry?
>
> I have no idea, but I do remember the Clinton years and I recall a 
> whole lot of apologizing going on, some of it even justified.
>
> Jenny Brown 

Other than his race what other reason is there to explain why critics of 
Clinton apologize and make excuses for Obama?
Jordan mentions Bush fatigue and the desire to pin hopes on anyone 
replacing him but I don't see than as explaining the depth of it.

John Thornton