Young non-Caucasian handsome male-should one speak out more of American inspiration with things beautiful?

I'm curious as to what his position on Israel would be?

Also- you say he attends church but he went to a madrassah school (what age did he do that btw?)... so which is he? Christian with Muslim heritage? Or Muslim, attending church (because American churches have become so watered down, and Muslims believe Jesus is a prophet anyway)?

Its possible his name could actually help with relations with Muslim countries, but then if the Muslim countries find out that he "smoked pot and drunk" in his younger years, they might just see him as worse than an infidel- an apostate- and that would make matters worse.

I love his views on race- there is only one united states of america- and the idea that "positive discrimination" should be based on socioeconomic status, not race. Love his views on universal healthcare. Am really disappointed about his voting against the trade agreement that would help poor countries out of poverty.

Are you people serious?

Barack Obama represents the racism present in America.

Think about it.

That this man, simply because of his colour, is guaranteed, as all the electoral experts in the U.S agree, the BLACK vote, is nothing less than extreme racism.

In my opinion, this is mabye worse than a nuclear bomb going off.

It brings back the ugly days of the OJ Simpson trial, where blacks, although most knew he was guilty as hell, supported him because he's a "brother".

Outrageous.

Why are ethnic minorities like this? Why are they stackable, like how it is for Muslims here? Where they all vote ALP because they're mafia boss, the oliveneck (not redneck) Sheik Hilali, tells them to?

OJ's lawyer Johnny Cochrane, a black racist, is behind wanting to get reparations for the descendents of slaves.

Do the descendents of convicts get to sue England because we were transported across the planet? Of course not, we just play them in cricket and laugh it off.

How many blacks know that the U.S, and Britain, were the two nations to STOP slavery, a practice common the whole world over, that they forced Arab and African nations to stop it.

How many know that the western world comprised 2% of all slave trade, with the rest mostly Muslim Arab states doing it?

Barack Obama represents an ugly side to America, of race politics. I wouldn't be surprised (as he looks very sly, as opposed to the openess of Condoleeza Rice or Colin Powell) if he was even in the redneck movement the BLACK PANTHERS, a black supremacist group, which is insanely bizarre when you think about it.

As I’d already noticed in this forum, I feel your posts provocative rather than stupid, Benjamin.

”Ethnic minorities are like this” because Anglo-majority in Australia does not allow them work somewhere not in cleaning if those lucky at all employed are

Barack Obama - a man to inspire America? Let's hope so. The hardened side of me says, as the article suggests, that a man of Obama's character will be charred and trampled by the attack campaigns that go with politics. But that little optimistic vein somewhere in me hopes that Americans will choose substance over pretence - and that Obama is a case of the former.

Obama [is it pronounced to rhyme with Osama?] certainly has a background that would make for a more broad-minded and broad-visioned head of state, which the rest of the world would surely hope for at the helm of the most powerful nation. From what I have seen of the others announcing their intention to run for the office, Obama is the one to barrack for. (That was bad, I know. He won't want me on his campaign committee.)

The really big worry is that the Democrats will retreat into an isolated state.That will spell instability for the Middle East and thus the supply of oil to the rest of the world will be threatened.

Stability must come to Iraq,because the consequences of chaos spreading to the rest of the Middle East,are too dire to contemplate.Barak Obama in my opinion will be a disaster.Someone has to have the balls to clean up Iraq and it won't be the Democrats.