[edge919]

I quoted exactly what was relevant and set it up in the header. There wasn’t anything to add in Post No. 1. The reporter said Obama was talking about his own ancestry ... which has little if anything to do with slaves and the history of slave trade. That’s part of the point. The other point is that Obama makes a self-identification that is goes against the nature of one being a U.S. president.

[Son House]

I quoted exactly what was relevant and set it up in the header.

Okay, I can understand using this strategy but would argue that is not how I understand this forum works. Yes, do set up what is relevant and what you wish to discuss, but also make you point at post #1 where it is intended, by the format, to go. At times when I have been frustrated by posters not commenting at post #1, I have simply asked at post #2, "what do you think?".

And let me Apologize for my being anything Less than Polite to you, Edge919.