Reply #124: Thank you for reading and thinking about my post.

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I think that a lot of responders to my OP read just the subject line and then barely skimmed the rest of my post.

And, of course I left out a lot more that I could have said, more evidence I could have cited, etc. In fact, it's probably tenuous to use the generation thing as the premise, but I was riffing off an earlier thread on her last night that talked about this Jones Generation thing. The generation thing is only a small part of the equation. As you say, the way Obama was raised, etc. also play a big part.

You said it! You get my point. I'm not hating Obama at all. I'm just recognizing that social issues are not likely to be his priority. He's going to try to focus on some other things - economy, budget, international relations - which are also very important.

That doesn't mean that social issues might not become his priority. Presidents can't predict what might happen. As I mentioned upthread, who would have guessed that LBJ would become a champion of civil rights? He definitely didn't plan it that way - but it happened.

I'll just repeat your paragraph here because it says it so well:

I am not hating the guy. He's my guy. But lets just be clear about what we bought. He is not a rights guy. He is not part of any group that might need rights. If we close our eyes, we will see things more clearly. Obama has as much in common with Kaine and Warren as he does with me, and I am a black man.