"Obama may be mixed but many of the blacks still consider him black, and with some of his promises they believe they will get the upper hand." <--- Ouch. thats terrible.
Black or white we're all americans. Thats the point. its not about one group of people getting the upper hand its about american's getting the "upper hand", US citizens as a whole need alot of help. if thats the african american demographic then so be it. if its the white demographic then so be it. Their all americans and all have equal rights. We cannot be scared of one group of americans getting more power than another becuase THERE ARENT SEPERATE GROUPS!.
"It would always be because he is black as to why he is being criticized. Nothing would get done. Everyone would be accused of being a racist or they would be afraid to say something to him. " <---- Again, thats not HIS fault that sounds like some people have some racial insecurities they are unable to deal with. That is something we as a country really need to get over in order to progress.
"Please don't say "mixed".... " <--- thats really unimportant, if he as a person chooses to be considered as one or the other than we should respect that, but I have friends who choose to consider themselves mixed and do so proudly, we shouldn't assume they dont want to be referred to that way we should just be polite and ask if its a concern.
"I guess it comes from hundreds of years of slavery and oppression" <--- we will never progress if we cannot admit our mistakes and then move forward. This really needs to become a historical reference and not something that guides our election process. we need to use it in our education material to prevent a repeat and acknowledge its importance in our history and civil rights. but again it cannot guide our current processes it creates more problems than it solves.
as far as the flag and pin thing and being unpatriotic, it has nothing to do with that. respecting ones country doesn't mean just following it blindly, I will do anything to help this country and sometimes that doesn't mean following the person in charge. I have participated in protests and I have been in positions where people have labeled me as being unpatriotic, I've got family in Iraq and have been there for 5 years I support the troops and just not some decisions our lovely president and congress choose to make, its my right as an american citizen allows me to protest if I deem something to be wrong, if that means sitting down through the pledge of allegiance or not wearing a stupid flag pin then I can and will, and that shouldnt make a difference whether I'm elected president or not. If he truly did become a terrible awful president we could just impeach him, its like if someone were really running the country into an awful position that we didnt build checks n balances to account for that.
I'm going to vote for obama becuase whether or not he's a charismatic speaker he seems great with foreign relations and seems to understand what the country needs. I'm not going to let any of this other stuff clog my judgement. He seems to be the best candidate for putting this country into a better place than it is now.
besides mccain is so old he'd die before he could do anything useful.
I kind of picked on both sides in this post and I really didnt want to post at all, nothing personal guys I still like all of you and I hope it doesnt change anything