Reply #27: Obama is not black enough and too black. He is

[jbnow]

too liberal and too conservative, a socialist and a corporatist and so on.

He's heard it all. The race crap from West is something Obama heard a lot over a decade ago when running his losing primary race for 2000 House Seat
He was called a "white man in blackface" by a primary opponent. Well that guy didn't win either but Obama was often mocked for his education and the way he spoke.
(Which he felt that gave kids the wrong message as though education diminished your blackness etc)
The Primary ended up being considered between the Black Panther (Bobby Rush) and the Professor.
a quote
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/before_obama_was_a_favorite_so.html

Shortly before the primary, black progressive journalist Salim Muwakkil noted in the Chicago Tribune that Obama was "perhaps the least favorite son," observing that "his Harvard education and crisp elocution mark him as insufficiently 'black.'"

The race soon became seen as a contest between the Black Panther and the Professor.
Opponents nurtured distrust about how Obama would ignore the black community and just serve the rich white people, especially Jews, a was being pushed by a University cabal and so on. Sort of like West now...
He'd have lost anyway once Rush got back into race but a series of events made it a wipe out.
Oh and Bill Clinton campaigned against Obama then too.

west ranted against Obama in such an ugly way that any valid points were lost.