While you were out, Mr. President

I am uncertain about the size of the crowd. I know there were 2,500 paid attendees at the Kennedy Center the night before. I know there were at least 10,000 people around the reflecting pool and the Lincoln Memorial. I know there were about 10,000 people lingering from the King event held elsewhere, and there are usually about 10,000 tourists as a matter of routine.

The hotels and motels were not crowded and I didn't see buses arriving in number that would support 500,000.

Oh, by the way, I am advocating reducing the size of government by 1/3rd at least. It isn't a Liberal - Conservative thing anymore. It comes down to what we can afford.

Sharpton was a pht.

"Momentum without a plan"

That goes on a t-shirt.

OK

Continue to demonstrate credible leadership.

Fire some select staff.

Pleasant thought in the end. I don't think that Obama was elected based on race as much as exceptional intellectual skills and a sound election strategy.

Uncensorednews, thank you for the consideration, regarding myself, of what one may have presumed you thought your comments would invoke as my reaction or response to the thoughts you have offered here. However, I am not offended.

The assumption that Barack Obama was elected because he is African American is a double edged sword.

According to a breakdown by racial composition, 66% of those identifying as Hispanic, not of White origin, voted for him, with the largest majority, over 90%, having voted for him occurring within the African American community. 62% of those identifying as Asian voted for Barack Obama in 2008.

Nationally, of those Americans that identified themselves as White, 42% voted for Barack Obama, within that number 46% of White women, 42% White men.

This percentage varied state to state, with a correlation drawn between states with substantial African American populations. 

The history of the creation of America and its most serious birth defects, in addition to the enslavement of people of African descent for more than 300 years, the slaughter and subjugation of the original inhabitants, so called Native Americans, the exclusion of non Whites from the process of U.S. naturalization for more than 200 years, had a direct result on U.S. societal development within all races and social strata, even today, as the country grapples with having elected the first president of African descent.

Non property owning White male citizens were initially excluded from participation in the functioning of the U.S. government, on all levels, legislative, judicial and the executive branch. Nor were White women allowed participation, giving rise to the women's Suffrage Movement and in the 60s, the push for the Equal Rights Amendment.  

It would be folly, in the case of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, to ignore their words and deeds and have " .... a little more confidence in what's inside a person's heart ...." given Glen Beck's years long track record of often offering racially charged, inflammatory rhetoric and the statements of Sarah Palin, who, for more than 3 years, beginning with her run as the Republican Party's Vice Presidential candidate in 2008, has offered commentary over and over, questioning the loyalty of then Senator Obama to America, with Sarah Palin recently defending an over the top Right Wing radio personality who intoned a bigoted, racial slur over and over on air, advising an African American caller, whose husband was White, that maybe the caller shouldn't have married outside of her race.

This latest attention getting ploy launched by former Governor Palin has upset a number of Black conservative Republicans.

Happiness is only relevant in regards to those intoning the alleged values of the Right Wing and its record of intolerance, seeking the suppression of everyone whose views differ from their own, seeking to deny those with whom they differ their happiness.

@Uncensored News.Obama was elected because he was,(why not' is ',or has colour of his skin changed?)a black American man is as much credible statement as US went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan to establish democracy and human rights.