Sorry to disagree, but this country is as "Post Racial", as any country is gonna get.

I will change my mind, when I see a Black English Prime Minister --- or how about they elect a Black King or Queen?

Oops -- that institution seems to have some "Racism" inherent in it.

I was proud of my Country, as we gave a Black Man
his chance at it.

Sorry to say, I think we picked the wrong Black guy, however, this does not make me a Racist, in any form, shape, or manner.

Other than, after Bush, I would have never voted "White" again.

Bush, in my opinion, totally discredited my own race
for some time to come.

If, in fact, Obama has 400 percent more threats against him, versus Bush at this point, it is perhaps because Obama has lied 400 percent more than Bush had at this point, and I thought that would have been impossible.

Of course that does not forgive any actual "Death Threats", for all you Numbskulls out there, no matter how many record Whoppers, our President is on the record for.

But define threat -- or do they mean complaints, peacefully voiced and protested?

I am certainly not advocating threats, as that would not accomplish anything, only drastically make matters worse.

In fact, I'd speculate that this Administration
might be benefited by some stupid racist holdover,
making some pointed threat against the President.

They might even have a budget for it.

They would use these threats, as basis to shout down any lawful protest or dissent, one might have with this administrations policies.

As Rahm Emanuel, echoing that Machiavellian phrase, said; "Never Waste a Good Crisis".

Just a short step away from that philosophy, to one
of "never hesitate to have a good crisis, where convenient".

I think in the second semester, they cover that in
Machiavellian Thinking 101.

I say, pray, chant, or whatever you do, for the President's safety, as if something were to happen to him, that is when the well known substance would certainly hit that rotating device.

Something to be avoided in my opinion.

And, as long as we have the option of voting him out, we will be okay.

Next Black Guy, please ----

And once again, to any racists out there, and not on any government payroll ---

Black people built this Country with us, our cultures are intertwined, they have paid their dues
along with us from the start.

To all you others, let me add ---

Obama is just a Puppet, get it thru your head, face reality, he is just an employee of some sort of overarching franchise, as was his predecessor.

Apparently, this "Franchise", I speak of, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, also, and in keeping with Racial Equality, White Guys do not have a Monopoly on lies and duplicity.

Black or White, has nothing to do with it, other than
a way to continue with the same program, as before,
only under the cover, of any opposition, being labeled as "Racist", since the label "Unpatriotic" had long since lost it's ability to make any sense under Bush.

As to your other matters ---

We called off the so called "War on Poverty" ,
no matter how much money the Gov foolishly threw at it, we were losing.

We declared "War on Poor People" instead.

It's called "over taxation" and deliberate "planned
De-industrialization", "deficit spending" resulting in "inflation", exploding "Corporate Run Prison Populations", "Nafta", etc.

St. Al Gore swore that Nafta was the greatest thing since Ice Cream.

And now with his current CO2 global warming scam, with it's planned curtailing of energy consumption, all the poor will freeze to death, and that might make Ted Turner very happy, as it reduces populations "before we revert to Cannibalism" (his words not mine).

You see --- "No Poor People" ergo "No Poverty" ergo "We Win"

Not --- "No Poverty" ergo "No Poor People" ergo "We Win"

There is a difference.

Poor people apparently result in Poverty, so we
are attacking Poverty, at it's roots, with this revised approach.

Didn't you get the Memo?

However, there are some White Papers, coming out of Think Tanks, that postulate, since Poverty is a relative state, by making all the US population poor, then relatively, we will have no poverty.

It appears to me, this is being seriously considered as the true path to victory in the war on poverty.

And I believe that they might be working out an analogous thesis, to finally win the "War on Terror".
A state of terror is a relative thing also ---
I'll leave you to think that one thru.

Seriously tho, all the money dumped on this, in the Sixties, just set up a Plantation Mentality, locking
many into impoverishment, which made a very good dependent voting block.

And they are done with that voting block now. since they have another one in the wings, that does not cost as much, and let's face it, voting is on the "Phase Out" list, anyway --- something about "the Tyranny of the Proletariat" having failed us, according to that visionary H.G. Wells, in that Crazy, Zany, Conspiracy Advocacy Book he wrote called, coincidentally I guess, "The New World Order".

Now if we talk about gov help with job training and higher education, that is different.

Of course, the "Catch 22", is that you have to have jobs, which brings me back to where I started.

We decided to declare "War on Poor People" instead, and that was way before Obama, but will continue nicely under the "Left Cover" he will provide.