Once Obama is elected, things will settle down. He really isn't anywhere close to that kind of politician. If it makes you feel better, I talked to a friend of my mother's the other day, and she told me in a whisper that she was voting for Obama. She didn't want to tell her husband, and she told me not to tell my mom, but she felt like Obama would be a good leader. What's funny is, it had nothing to do with race. It's about him being a "liberal".
That's been happening for awhile now, long before Obama. Conservatives have been spoonfed that socialism bullshit for about 15 years now, and a lot of them have forgotten that it is only hyperbole. Even that psycho in Pittsburgh that deliberately created a race-baiting scenario... that had less to do with race than with trying to stop "liberals".
I'm not worried personally, though. I dunno if you remember, but a big part of that race speech after Rev. Wright was acknowledging that perhaps some white people had a legitimate reason to be disgruntled over reverse discrimination.That was one of the first things that truly impressed me about Obama, because it was a level of honesty that we don't typically get from our politicians. In a lot of ways, this "liberal" thing is exactly the same type of prejudice. We'll get past it.
