The only sense in which Obama’s race bothers me is the accusation that if I don’t support him I must be racist. Pick a candidate completely at random, and make accusations of that sort, and I’ll be less likely to support that candidate.
(Why wouldn’t the same “logic” apply to people who didn’t support the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas?)
Considered in and of themselves, I think Obama is the more defeatable of the two leading Democratic contenders. Aside from racism (there is SOME, although rather less than certain of his supporters appear to believe), he’s quite inexperienced, extremely left-wing, and making some very poor policy and strategy proposals. He has not shown well in states likely to give electoral votes to the Democrat in November.
However, in the dynamic that the nomination process has created, I now think that nominating Clinton might be the kindest thing that the Democrats could do for Sen. McCain. It would so offend many of Obama’s supporters, along with a fair shot of Democrats who haven’t studied the overall nominating process, that they would refuse to support Clinton in the general election. (The media telling us that a dead heat is over, aren’t helping.)
