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This guy is truly the most dangerous man in America

He is able to be everyman to everyone. He's a better chameleon than Hillary.

...He was affable with everyone, smiling warmly, but in exchanges that lasted more than a few seconds it was possible to see him slipping subtly into the idiom of his interlocutor—the blushing, polysyllabic grad student, the hefty black church-pillar lady, the hip-hop autoshop guy.

Black activists sometimes say that African-American kids need to become “bi-dialectic”—to speak both black English and standard English—to succeed. Obama, the biracial kid from Hawaii, speaks a full range of American vernaculars.

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Black activists sometimes say that African-American kids need to become “bi-dialectic”—to speak both black English and standard English—to succeed. Obama, the biracial kid from Hawaii, speaks a full range of American vernaculars.

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This might apply to Michael Steel but not Obama. He is not American Black in any sense of the word. His culture is a- racial not bi-racial. Interestingly, as your first paragraph alludes, he adopts to the group he is with, hence his identification with black democrat politics. He embraces the stereotype although he cynically knows that it is not him. He gives them what they want to believe, a true demigod