An Obama Presidency?!

Over at Sepia Mutiny they discuss Obama as a brown candidate - http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/004943.html

No he's really not running a racial campaign, whether brown, black or blue - he actually has built upon Edwards' 2004 theme of the 2 Americas, except he uses the red states/blue states' ideological divide when he may mean the racial and economic ones too. The only time he actually referred to race in his campaign speeches was on the Selma anniversary (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7630250 )

I had steadfastly dismissed him as a creature of the celeb-obssessed, fad-chasing culture; even when hearing him speak I have felt he touched upon generalities and abstractions. And, yes, I am wary of someone selling hope - I remember Marketing 101 and the quote attributed to Charles Revlon "In the factories we make perfume, but in the stores we sell hope."! And I wonder what is the Obama factory really making? He seems too good to be true, and everything I've learnt from life, is that if its too good to be true, it can't be true.

I do think that if he's as good as he sounds, Obama as a member of a racial minority can do much more to shake up the power equilibrium in favor of the dispossessed classes than can Hillary as a woman. But I am so afraid that if Dems choose Obama as the nominee and Americans follow suit to make him Prez, it may be in exactly the same mind-frame that they selected Jimmy Carter so close after Watergate. And the Obama Presidency like Carter's will be awash in goodwill but will beseiged by the cunning, ugly, manipulative obstructionist minority in the Republican camp and the world at large. They would be wroth to see any good come out of the Dem Party...give them a long enough rope to hang themselves will be their mantra and they will see to it that he comes out looking like another naive peanut farmer. To this day they will not credit Carter adequately for the Camp David Peace Accord, they blame him for the Iran hostage crisis, and the economic problems of the 70's -

I agree with the Dailykos diarist RenaRF (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/4/135059/1810/652/430574) things could get real ugly but not just on the way to the nomination - our candidates have been bruised one after the other, Kennedy, Carter, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, in so many ways in their path to the White House, their stays at the WH and/or with their post-WH history.

I am truly afraid to Hope.