Reply #39: I believe he can overcome these obstacles.

[GenDem]

He is so likable, and sincere - I think he will be able to embrace the people the way that Bobby Kennedy did. He won't get the racists votes, anyway...even if he was white, those votes go to the republicans.

My mother is in her early 70's and although I would never call her a racist, she comes from a time where the mindset was different. She was raised by a very racist father and some of that rears it's ugly head. For example she will say the word "colored", or she'll say she worries about the children from a multi-racial couple. I cringe and carefully correct.

She has made all positive comments about Obama...she saw him on Oprah, and has seen his face in the news lately and she really likes what she sees, and said if he runs she will vote for him. She is a good bell weather.

The trouble will be the republican attack machine.