President Obama?

Think about it. A community organizer in the south-side of Chicago in 1985, a graduate student at Harvard Law School in 1988, an author of his first book, Dreams from My Father in 1995, a State Senator from Illinois in 1996, reelected to Illinois Senate in 1998, again reelected to the Illinois State Senate in 2002 and finally to the US Senate in January 4, 2005. His second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, was published in October 2006. Do you think Barack Obama is qualified to run for the President of the United States?

Here’s a list of American Presidents since World War II: FD Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush. Can you spot a single ethnic name in that list? The nearest you get to any kind of difference is JFK who was Irish and Catholic but that, I would argue, is not truly ethnic.