Sen Obama highlights in his book the feelings of alienation caused by "always playing on the white man's court - by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn't."
A pasty white man was the "first black president" and now the first black man with a chance to become president has to try to prove he's black. That's what they call irony.
From the article:
"Kelli Furushima, 46, a close friend of Mr Obama, recalls: "We're just such a mixed-up bag of races, it was hard to imagine that he felt that way because he just seemed happy all the time. Smiling all the time." Flicking through an old school yearbook, full of pictures of a grinning Obama, she added: "You see he talks in his book about race and stuff, and we all have the same reaction: we're all so surprised that he had any sort of anguish at all. You can see we had so many tones of brown. If someone is brown, they can be Samoan or Fijian or Tongan. I can't tell if someone is Fijian, or black." She paused to point out how Sen Obama had dotted his signature with a little Afro-haircut symbol atop the "B" and the "O"."
Yeah, like despite all of Hillary's hard work and planning, John Edwards could become our first woman president.
'nuf said