re: #18 ckkatz

A lot of folks harsh on Obama for not being progressive enough.

But it seems to me that he had two important tasks. First to successfully lead our country. But second, also to destroy the argument that an Afro-American man could not be a national leader.

when he was elected a few weeks after the economic collapse, Iraq and Afghanistan both quagmired, the Onion headline was “Black Man Gets Worst Job in the World.”