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Rereading that article after the fact of the election makes it an even more important essay. What the author was describing so early in the primary season (practically immediately after the 2006 mid-term elections) has come true.

White Americans approve of BHO in a way that they never did of Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton who were/are the ‘attitude’ American blacks.

Perhaps this mini-controversy about the Shanklin parody will get a few more people to read this article and evaluate their own motives for liking and supporting Obama.

The concluding paragraphs:

“Obama’s fame right now has little to do with his political record or what he’s written in his two (count ‘em) books, or even what he’s actually said in those stem-winders. It’s the way he’s said it that counts the most. It’s his manner, which, as presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden ham-fistedly reminded us, is “articulate.” His tone is always genial, his voice warm and unthreatening, and he hasn’t called his opponents names (despite being baited by the media).

“Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn’t project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.”

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Shelby Steele wrote a good book about the same phenomenon as it relates to Obama’s ways. It has been totally ignored by Big Media.