understandedly confused.....

ok, so....i m personally pleased that b. obama is running for president......he is liberal and mostly baggage-free....and though i would prefer to vote for the first viable woman.....hilary has so much baggage as to be cumbersome.....maybe not her own...but linkable.....the questionable death of vince foster is similar enough to ed kennedy and chappequidick (sp) to quell all hope for for this reasonably open-minded person......curiously, the colbert report a few nights ago hosted a salon.com columnist who explained why obama is not black.....wtf? you say under your (collective) breath?..how can he be dark-skinned with african roots and not be black?.......it seems that those of color have determined that only those who have west african slave connections can call themselves black.....and mr obama, with only kenyan (eastern) african connections by way of his kansan mother living in hawaii....cannot by this definition be...black........who knew?.....the salon.com commentator on colbert's show was serious as a heart attack about this point....which does not seem to be a legal term by any means.....gp figure.....so what does that say about us non-blacks....are germanic northern europeans any less white than those from england or france or wales.....?......shoud we of palour subdivide into these cultural distinctions......?,,,my scottish kin came here as indentured servants...doesn;t that align me with east africans?.....or at least in the same boat as kenyans?.......or irish who have been the whipping folks for decades in some parts.......ah well....i might just throw my hat into obama's ring right now and save others any debate on where i stiand.....