[aruanan]

.Sen Obama's self-portrait of an angry young black man who became a "pothead" is scarcely recognisable to those who knew him during his formative years in Hawaii.

Obama the Opportunist. When it was to his perceived advantage to be the angry black guy, he hushed up his white background. When it was to his advantage to use his white background to be the Magic Negro, he emphasized this. Now we hear about how when he was seven he wanted to be president. Doesn't this recall the childhood of another famous opportunist who said in elementary school that if he had been the Roman emperor the Roman Empire would never have fallen? Or the opportunists Algore and John Friggin Kerry who, from young ages, have lusted for the presidency?

[Beckwith]

... who, from young ages, have lusted for the presidency?

If someone has wanted to be president since grammar school, he or she should be disqualified out of hand.