"You are exactly right. White liberals will never vote for a black man for President, or even the Senate. Never."
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but if you're not then I disagree. I think there's a collective white guilt in the US about blacks. Just look at how some CONSERVATIVES (!!) here on this board are softening up to him in this thread! Think they'd do that if Kerry or Edwards invoked God in their speeches?
By the way, there's nothing in his platform http://issues2000.org/Senate/Barack_Obama.htm that sounds potentially Republican. The speech is just shameless pandering to the center-right crowd.
I'm not being sarcastic at all. White liberals don't vote for black candidates for high office. They just don't, and there is plenty of evidence for it. How many blacks are in the US Senate? Where were the high-ranking blacks in the Clinton Administration?