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Carl Andrews | October 16, 2009
Barack Obama may have beaten the odds.
He may be giving it what he considers to be his best.
But that probably won’t be good enough.
At an election night party during the primaries last year I made a throwaway comment disparaging those who believed Barack Obama’s mixed-race identity gave him a unique understanding of America’s racial problems.
“It does,” said one woman.
I explained that I was joking. She was not. “It really does,” she continued. “He knows how black people think and he knows how white people think.”
“If that’s what it took then Tiger Woods [whose father is of African American, Chinese and Native American descent and mother is of Thai, Chinese and Dutch descent] should be president and Nelson Mandela should have stayed in the Transkei,” I said.
“So why’s he doing so well?” she asked. I suggested it was probably his stance on the war, the state of the economy and a desire to move on from the Clinton-Bush duopoly combined with his grassroots organising experience and use of new technology.
“There’s more to it than that,” she said. “It’s him.”
It is almost impossible to have an intelligent conversation about Obama. The problem isn’t that people come to him with baggage. Everyone comes to everything in politics with baggage. It’s that they refuse to check it in or even declare it. Any conversation about what he does rapidly morphs into one about who he is and what he might be.
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