Yes. His experiences as a CIA operative prepared him
well to put up a good front and deliver a speech,
well-written by his highly-qualified wife, or
speech-writers.
However.
His father was Kenyan, purportedly Negroid. His
mother was Caucasion - carrying a UK passport -
perhaps. Thus he is neither Negroid nor Caucasian,
but rather a mixture. Doesn´t matter to me. Nor did
he have input into who his parents were nor what
name was written on his birth certificate - if he
has one.
When his loving old Grandma said he was born in
Kenya, his wife said, ” - when we visited Barack´s
homeland, Kenya—” and the former records custodian
of birth records in Hawaii said there was no birth
record for Barack Hussein Obama. This means to me
that he is was not born in the U.S.A. The U.S.A.
operates on the basis of the U.S. Constitution,
which requires that U.S. presidents be born in the
U.S.A.
Until it is established, with genuine documents, not
falsified by the CIA or U.S. Treasury, who falsified
passports for approx. 2,000 NAZI-types secreted into
the USA, 1945-1948, I will consider him to be an
imposter, fraudulently “installed” by the same NAZI
thugs.
Until he begins to support the U.S. Constitution,
instead of punishing those who do, he is just
another imposter, who wants to destroy the U.S.A.

Uh…excuse me?  This man gave one of the most powerful and effective speeches on race ever spoken to the American public.  How many of those speeches is he “required” to give to prove his “bona fides” in this regard?

If we couldn’t get it together enough after his FIRST one to REALLY have a discussion on race - and start decreasing its continued pernicious effect on our society - what makes anyone think that another one is going to make any difference?

Peace.

I attack Prisident Obama’s conservative policies

and I am enlightened liberal…

Please of you want to call yourself an Obama supporter
don’t call your self an enlightened liberal.

By the way:That “The View” is offered as a serious platform for a Presidential discussion about Race says a lot about the state of our airways and National access to important dialogue. We need to tax corporate media who profit from “-the peoples-” airways ‘till they bleed.

      The only place the beautiful and free America you love exists, is inside you. Your physical world, is a debt indentured WalMartesque prison landscape, run by a corporate security machine, which allows its inmates nightly home furlough.

      Serious discussion of Race, Class and Social Reform is the last thing they want. They’ll destroy your family before they’ll allow a “living wage”. Why? Because education, personal wealth, community and family are POWER. The megalomaniacal psychopath (think Herod—think Boehner) fears health and wholeness in its victims. What do you think the “illegals” issue is about? The American worker paid huge dues in both labor and blood and built the greatest economy in the world. The fascist Cheney/Bush regime and their Wall Street minions gutted it. Now, in the face of GCC Doom and Natural Disaster, they treat you like a puppy who pissed the carpet, tell you you’re lazy, and allow the country to be overrun with cheap labor. And, your tax dollars pay for the adverse financial and social consequences while they profit. While this and other issues of magnitude press for address, they twiddle and smirk. Our European counterparts (”—but they pay high taxes—”) don’t put up with this crap and live fine lives. You don’t deserve it??

      Two more quick ones for you.

      Notice that the political/Wall Street Clinton wedding shut down the little town where it was held? High private corporate and Federal security monitored citizens and closed the roads in and out. Just like our airports, it will become permanent. The private enclave for the rich ascends. “All animals are equal, but some animals, are more equal than others.”

      GOOD NEWS!! We have a corrupt Republican “oil industry” Senator in my state. T.V. commercials are appearing that challenge and expose the slimebags record with facts and reason. Guess who’s behind it? Our local grass roots environmental organizations. I’m sending money today!!

      “Off with their heads!!”

It is refreshing to see that Barry Barack and the “Progressives” don’t play the race card. Uh- wait a second, what is this? Cha?rlie Rangel and Maxine “Dirty” Waters said what?

Nevermind

Poverty, class, economy and sane effective moral leadership are the real issue. Health care, jobs, a living wage, access to good education, sane drug law, enforcement of current immigration law, GCC legislation, population control, all and any approach to a dignified human American future will never be allowed by the Republithugs, the Dumbocrats or the vicious megalomaniacal financial narcissists who control them.

    Thinly disguised racist contempt of whites and American Culture, the framing of the Constitution as “only” a document meant to protect the property rights of white men, and the twisting of American history by the “politically correct”, to obscure the real struggles of all Americans, has served its’ intended purpose. The American Southwest is a defacto second “illegal” latino nation, with its’ own black market economy. Fascist for profit repression of Black Americans, who populate a manufactured warzone, (think E.St. Louis) fill the largest industrial prison complex in the world. How could hope survive that reality? It’s bull#@it and Black Americans know it!! Native Americans live in their own Nations, and the rest huddle in innercity economic zones.

      All races here once held, at least some common vision, hope and purpose for the American future. American leadership betrayed the vision. The fascist Cheney/Bush regime overthrew the Constitution, installed a Police State and the looting began. They ain’t gonna quit. Welcome to apocalypse and perpetual war. There are no non-combatants. Everyone hates everyone, and everyone, is betting on the firestorm where, you get both the “bang and the whimper”.

      By mid-century population will explode. GCC will drive millions north from the tropics. Natural resources will begin to fail worldwide. National Borders will be armed and mined by the military. Governments and the rich will retreat into protected enclaves (think Xe). It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where you’re children are? Because that’s where your grandchildren will be. Republithugs are already trying to nationalize water and Monsanto wants to make it illegal for you to grow your own food.

      There’s still time to not cut each others throats. Everyone knows that jobs, access to education, good conservation of natural resources and a sane approach to population builds a strong equitable societal structure. Race is an airball. Guns, thugs and money are the problem. That’s the real trickle down that the fascist elite offer. What part of Sieg Heil don’t you understand?

“many are left wondering whether Obama’s remarks represent a racial dialogue initiative or a post-racial accomplishment.”

Many are, huh.

Oh, brother.

And is Al Franken REALLY representing an elected Congressman or just cleverly promoting Saturday Night Live?

Please. At least be honest. If you want to attack the President, have the guts to call yourself a conservative, and not pretend to be an enlightened liberal.

Whether or not we “should” talk about race relies on whether or not we want racial discrimination to cease or to continue.  If we want it to change, the conversations will aim in that direction.  If we want it to reamin the conversations will aim in that direction.
  An example is the recent article on the dropping of the Abomb on Hiroshima and Nagazaki.  Comments on Truthdig regaring this matter for the most part (with some exceptions) exhibited the same 65-year-old prejudices, misjudgments, lack of knowledge and refusal to admit any need for change.  It was discouraging to read comments that sounded exactly like comments made 65 years ago, and consistently since, every time the subject comes up.
  Conversations about problems can change people’s attitudes only if there is a recognition that change is necessary, would be advantageous to everybody concerned, and can be achieved.
The fact is that there are many people in this country who do not want to give up the special privileges of whites; in fact, they do not even admit that whites have privileges.
  Of course this is not the only place where some people, based on some historical “reason” have precedence over others, but in America we have long had the goal of equality for all, regardless of differences, so we are obligated to admit and do what can be done to change racial discrimination in the U.S.—if we are to live up to our promises and our Constitution. Anything short of equality is a betrayal of both promises and laws.