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Will Obama have to be better because he's black?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/24/obama.pressure/index.html

[ShortnFiery]

1. OMG! I can't tune into/peruse the M$M save for KO, Rachel Maddow and Fareed Zakaria :(

My blood pressure couldn't stand it. :thumbsdown:

[Uzybone]

2. He is black?

I never heard the media talk about that before.

[JuniperLea]

4. LOL!

Beat me to it!

[Chulanowa]

13. Whenever Obama's race become the subject of news...

I can't help but picture the MSM as that guy from blazing Saddles. "The sherrif's a NIG*bong*! The sherrif's a NIG*bong*!"

[ellacott]

15. Excuse me while I whip this out.................

:)

[onehandle]

3. Of course! And he better not be screaming for his MFing ice tea.

Stay classy, CNN.

[MADem]

11. But where is his TUXEDO?

You know you need to provide a link...there WILL be someone who does not, or chooses not to, understand your point.

Point 'em here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/25/2007-09-25_bill_oreillys_harlem_shocker_famed_eater.html

[ikojo]

5. The answer is yes....he doesn't have all of the wiggle

room that Bush was given by the media. Americans have a notoriously short memory and a couple of years from now, if we are still deep in a recession and still in the quagmire of Afghanistan and Iraq, all of those things will be blamed on Obama.

His daughters will have to be nearly perfect as well.

[Beaverhausen]

8. Yeah, I agree with this

[Uzybone]

10. Joking aside you are correct

if he and Michelle had Palins' kids he would have blasted to hell by the media and our culture.

Obama knows there is a double standard, he knows that Jackie Robinson has to undergo shit when he integrated baseball. To me his presidency is the same thing but on a different level.

[TTUBatfan2008]

12. You are correct, it is a different level...

It's far more subtle than the blatant garbage Jackie had to put up with.

[TTUBatfan2008]

6. Would an idiot like Bush have been elected...

if he was anything other than a white male? Absolutely not.

[underpants]

7. Al Franken with a Chris Rock "joke"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x264603

Persident Bush screwed up so bad that he had it hard for a white guy to get elected President

[Grey]

9. Says it all.....

"If the president was Jesus Christ, '' Jefferson said, "they would still debate if he's qualified.

[FrenchieCat]

14. As was said..."when we elect a Black President as dumb as Bush,

that is when we can say there is no racism in this country".....Chris Rock

[Bertha Venation]

16. Well, that was inevitable. n/t

[Cha]

17. I'll reference Chris Rock..when

he was asked by a mediawhore, no doubt.. "Is America ready for a Black President?".. Chris, "America was ready for a retarded president."

Not PC, I know..but, that's Chris for ya.

[alwysdrunk]

18. The truth is yes, he will

The first anything of anything has to be better. They have to be better to get there and they have to be better to stay there. I don't know if CNN should be the one bringing this up, but it's definitely something people are thinking about. I'm sure that Obama is thinking about it himself.