Could Barack Obama REALLY be the next President?

Question

Its been an ongoing debate within the people around me and I believe that he could actually win. However, is America really ready for a Black President?

Answer 1

The US is ready for a black president, no problem. But Obama is not ready for the presidency. Maybe Colin Powell or Alan Keyes or Condi Rice...

Answer 2

Barack is not ready for prime time this time around. However with a little more seasoning/experience he will be a major contendor and very possible winner next time. Hillary will absolutely plow him under in '08. I would not rule him out as a VP candidate on a Clinton/Obama democratic ticket.

Answer 3

We're as ready as we're ever going to be. Black leaders are part of the norm now, and I do not see it changing unless ignorant and scared racists can suck it up and move on. C. Rice is doing a great job and can handle it, so can Barack. Its really a silly topic.

Answer 4

I think Obama put it best, "If I'm outside your building trying to catch a cab," he told Charlie Rose, "they're not saying, 'Oh, there's a mixed race guy.'"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1584736,00.html

Black, white, green, brown, whatever, once people got to know him in Illinois, they liked him as a man.

Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that he's not worried about how he will fare with fellow African-Americans should he launch a bid for the presidency, as he is expected to do in February.

"If you look at my black vote in my U.S. Senate race or my approval ratings back in Illinois," Obama (D-Ill.) said, "I feel pretty confident that, once folks know who I am, we'll do just fine."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0701260106jan26,1,1462426.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

In the Illinois senate race, he appealed to even the most conservative districts: "He recalled Sunday that when he successfully ran for the Senate in Illinois two years ago, he was well-received in downstate Cairo, Ill., a city which had been racially segregated in the late 1960s and which used to have a white separatist White Citizens’ Council.

“Southern Illinois is the South,” Obama explained to an audience of Yankees in Portsmouth, N.H. “It’s closer to Little Rock or Memphis than it is to Chicago.”

In the 1960s, Cairo was “the site of some of the worst racial violence of any place in the nation, as bad as anything going on in Mississippi or Alabama,” Obama said.

Some Illinois Democrats, he recalled, were worried in 2004 that a black candidate from Chicago named Obama was “not going to sell downstate.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16177866/

These polls saying Hillary is leading Obama mean nothing. It's too early. After people get to know him, the numbers will change.

Answer 5

I do believe he has pulled out of his potential running. However I think America is more ready for a black president than a woman president. I am republican but I am a big fan of Barak Obama. He'd certainly have my vote.

Answer 6

I think it should not be a black or white question and the color of skin should not matter. It should be the best man for the job and if he is the best man for the job he could be the next president.

Answer 7

I dont feel their is anything wrong with a black president or a woman for that matter, I'm just not sure the ones running are the ones we need.

Answer 8

I don't think he could win the general election, will make a good vice president though

Answer 9

It doesn't matter if he's Black. Americans don't really care. But it might not be Obama. (He's too liberal or inexperienced for some to vote for him, but they would possibly vote for Condi).

But if he gets the Democratic nom., he has an excellent chance of being elected.

Hope this helps.

Answer 10

I doubt that most of america is.
for me it is not a question of race but i had never heard of him before his election bid and agree with others here that his experience is lacking.