[Dems2008] Re: What Ferraro said

Cat, as you are wont to do, you missed the entire point. Here is an
excerpt from the very article that you cite (perhaps too subtle for
you to comprehend, but also perhaps valuable to those with eyes to
see):

Indeed, Obama's most valued currency might be that he is different.
He is not a progeny of the civil rights movement or the black church.
Rather, his life has been a study in racial fusion.

The complexity of his biography--a black father from Africa, a white
mother from Kansas, adolescence in the white world, adulthood in the
black--has added to his allure as a public figure.

To a generation of Americans, he is the first of his kind in an era
when the most dramatic struggles for racial equality are now grainy
images from a distant past. Color alone does not define him, yet race
is never far from the conversation when Obama is the subject.

It is still, after all, considered remarkable when a black man wins a
seat in the U.S. Senate.

So when Obama was elected last fall, becoming the third African-
American senator since Reconstruction, he inspired a bountiful hope
that has long been percolating, a promise that includes the prospect
of even higher public office.

For blacks it is a hope born of violence and discrimination, struggle
and triumph. For many whites as well, Obama embodies a sense of hope
that transcends traditional tensions and ambiguities of race.

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