>A question for both you and Victor then. Clearly you know that I have serious concerns about the current administration. Yes or no, do you think my concerns and objections are rooted in his race/skin color/etc?
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>Only you can know why you think what you do.
>I personally think that your motivation is intellectual.. however much I might disagree with it.

Correct, yes, and thank you.

And yes, it is always going to be an issue.

And it wouldn't have mattered if Barack Obama had been Barack Obama or anyone else - having the country's first African American president surely was going to mean many public and private debates on race.

And I've mentioned this before - his famous Father's Day speech in 2008 was powerful and a pleasant surprise - he checked his race at the door and made some comments that needed to be made. But from that point on, he and his administration have used race as a shield and as a sword. The bottom line - putting it down into "human" terms, he turned out to be very immature for the job.