Quote Originally Posted by MrSplitshot View Post
Because the Presidential election has become some kind of Hollywood, wow-factor, reality TV, popularity contest. It has very little to do with qualifications for the job, and more to do with popularity and who can raise the most cash...which is pretty sad. Obama was the X-Factor candidate, smooth talker, and appealed to the right amount of the population to get elected. Economy was in the crapper, Iraq/Afghanistan, and people wanted change, change, change...well, they got it!

(Oh, and it had nothing to do with him being black. Nothing at all.)
I respect your opinion but I feel him being elected had everything to do with him being black. My take.....he would get the black vote, majority of the minority vote, the independents who wanted "change", the hip young Hollywood, college kids that are fed all this white guilt crap all the time and of course those of his party that supported his liberal ideas. The Oprah, the view and other liberal vehicles pushed the "first black potus idea" to death.
If a white man would have run against the GOP I feel the would have lost.