To me it’s irrelevant the color of a person, but with Obamas Ideology it will put a death nail to the dominance of the left wing in respect to the internet.

But to stay on topic; did I think that Barack Obama would win? No

Things I will continue to strongly disagree with you on:
1. Race (or gender) is not a significant impediment to minority progress.
2. The election of Obama shows that racism has been largely eliminated in the U.S.

Things that make me hopping mad:
1. When thinly-veiled bigots (e.g. Pat Buchanan), who did everything they could to keep a black man from being President, now want to make the arguments above.

What are the chances that someone like Obama, even with the Republican party in the same circumstances behind them, would have won the presidency say 50 years ago? I think we can agree that it is very low, even zero.

Yet many people do not realize that we are in a very different world. I told people, over and over again, that Obama can win - many people thought I was nuts. They said, repeatedly, that a black man can never be president of the United States. “were not ready”, they assured me.

Take this statement by Gerry Vázquez:

It’s a leap of faith to believe that a majority of voters in America are ready to pull the lever for a Black man for president in 2008.

He just couldn’t believe that a black man really can become president.

Obama proves that people like Gerry Vazquez have outdated views on America’s progress. It’s a stark reminder on the very real progress we have made.

Personally, I believe that race is not even in the top 10 of impediments to minority progress. The private industry has long ago embraced minorities, with blacks at the CEO levels of several prominent companies (one of the many reasons why I prefer the private sector to the political sector - political sector is zero sum, so it takes a lot longer for real progress…even Compton politics is still dominated by black politicians even though the city is more than 50% latino).

But atleast we can agree that the Obama presidency proves that there has been significant race progress?

Obama’s victory is certainly a nice step in the right, post-racial direction, but the much, much more likely explanation for it is that people were sick of the Republican Party’s shenanigans, sick of the wars, and upset by the economic meltdown. In fact, they were so sick and so upset that even a black guy could win!

Remind me again, how many African-American Senators are there?

Let’s do a thought experiment: