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I wonder why they always overlook the most important part of the equation--blacks are app 12% of the population, whites are app 75%. There is no way a person can get elected to the White House by dismissing the largest demographic voting bloc, and telling them that they are bitter racists. Even though the white vote is not unified like the black vote is in consistently voting for the Democrats, you still don't get elected as President of all the people by shaking your finger in the face of the largest, by far, demographic. It's just absurd. They live in a small bubble of self-hating guilt-tripping whites, and are surprised when the rest of us want to vote for the person who represents us best regarding the issues, not on racial representation. The White House is the one elected office, if there is no other, in which racial and gender identity politics have absolutely no place. "Leader of the free world", indeed, representing America and its best interests (in the best of all worlds, of course), not representing racial factions as if you were a local mayor or something. It's a shame that even mayorships have come to that. The White House (not forgetting what Clinton did to it, after the luster President Reagan gave back to it after Carter) is supposed to be bigger than that, and anyone who thinks that they will use it as a platform for castigating some 70% of the population while benefitting the 12%, doesn't understand what it means at all. Obama clearly didn't, as his ties to people like Wright show. He was supposed to be bigger than that, if he wanted to be President.