GAK. any perception of racism belongs to the individual viewer, period, not the fact that the 2 facts were stated in conjunction

'berto, Obozo was elected for a myriad of reasons, the actual least of which in my opinion, was the misguided perception he was the best candidate.

The dimwitted libs fawned over this POS because he is 1/2 black and with blacks always as firm supporters of the Dems, blacks flocked to the polls to vote for him (between 90-98% of the black voters cast their ballots for Obozo, most of whom had never in their lives cast a ballot for their local dog catcher, much less in a prez. election), has a gift of oratory (and they were too busy slobbering over his verbal diarrhea to take the time to actually understand his silky speeches were filled with nothing of import, much less substance), they viewed him as intellectual (though since his educational records were constantly refused to be revealed [still are BTW] I'm not sure where that perception came from), because he promised governmental openess, racial unity (tempered with the PC concept of "social justice" to assuage their guilt), and told them he would end all the wars we were in, which he has not only not done, but involved us in another and done so in abject violation of his constitutional authority by never asking congressional approval, and lastly because as another part of his "social justice" platform BS he swore he'd grant the fuckin illegal hoards of aliens within our shores not only amnesty for their breaches of our laws, but also full citizenship (something he's not only failed to do legally but now has implemented through circumvention of our actual laws in a backdoor fashion through manipulation of policy by those empowered to enforce immigration law).

Obozo the obloviator is the most abject failure of a prez. we as a nation have ever subjected ourselves to and even when a huge segment of his liberal base has begun to say so and distance themselves from, it amazes many of us that no matter how diametrically opposed his policies are to moving us positively forward he still manages to unwaveringly hold onto a solid 40% of the electorates support, which given that this segment of the population has suffered even more severely from his policies really defies logical support for them!

I voted for McCain not because I saw him as a great candidate but because I saw Obama for what I still espouse him to be ... a narcissistic lying puppet of those intent on manipulating and destroying my country from within.

BTW, while I don't fully grasp nor understand the Aussie process of placing your leader into power I do have to wonder about the efficacy of a leader being selected by any means other than a simple popular vote by the electorate. Having said that I also take issue with our own system as it manipulates the popular vote through the process of the electoral college, an outdated concept prone to manipulation and distortion of the overall will of the electorate. I feel neither method is suitable for implementing the will of the electorate in a representative republic form of governance