So who identifys with him?
I know I do.
Obama is sort of embodying what Americans need to come together right now. I have said for years and years that in order for white people and black people to come to understand each other and be comfortable with each other, we are going to have to have more interacial couples that have children that grow up and become famous.
There have been lots of mixed race children that is true but we need more of them to become famous so that Americans will want to lay claim to them, if you will. If black folks and white folks can look at a star or politician or CEO and say, "Hey, he's one of us." it will lead to unity. Obama is the son of an interracial couple. Black father, white mother. Yes, he looks black but he is of both races. He embodies harmony between the races.
Further, as much as the right likes to paint him as a liberal (and he is in some ways), he is really a moderate. He wants to make sure everyone has health care but he's not in favor of a single payer system. He was against the war and still is but he's not going to order the troops out in 30 days once he's elected (and, I must admit, I fear he may not draw them down substantially for a long time).
Over the next few months, you're going to hear him articulate his stances in much more defined terms than you have during the primary because he is going to want to appeal to ALL voters in ways that ALL voters will feel like they are getting something rather than being listened to and then pissed on (like the left has felt for the past 8 years with "president" Bush).
