Are Americans correct to wonder: Is Obama one of us ?

Question

According to the Daily News:

Is Obama one of us?

That's the question many voters will be asking themselves over the next three months. How they answer it will probably decide who takes the oath in January.

Barack Obama's spectacular world tour — ecstatic crowds, brilliant visuals, a virtual endorsement from the French president — has convinced the infatuated intelligentsia that balloting is a mere formality. But don't be fooled. This election is far from over.

To many Americans, Obama is still a stranger, an exotic and mysterious stranger with an odd name, a dark face, a weird pastor, a cheeky wife and a brief past.

http://www.middlesborodailynews.com/articles/2008/08/03/opinion/editorials/988roberts.txt

Answer 1

Shift in polls suggest that the real Obama is no different than the Obama we fear...



Come November, it will be McCain, just watch.

Answer 2

Perhaps it's coincidental, although I doubt it, but Google just got reprimanded for freezing accounts of some subscribers, who were pushing a Petition, to demand Obama produce a valid and official birth certificate. They didn't provide numbers, but after the complaint was filed and investigated, it "APPEARS" a strong Obama supporter groupd, had conspired to have these accounts tagged as "spam" and therefore closed down.

Funny how that happens on Yahoo too. As to your "question" in making Obama "sound" like some kind of super being, he's a "mysterious stranger" because he has a great deal to hide from the public. I won't sweat it though....

Obamas real day of reckoning on his "past" are yet to come.

Answer 3

I think there are few if any voters, who have not made a decision by now. The undecideds are an "unknown" in all this and certainly no one can believe any of the polls lately. For me Obama is not a stranger and never was. Plenty of people saw through his shallow, fake and self serving persona he created. And I wouldn't go so far as to say his "spectacular" world tour. He came off of that looking foolish and more of a comedic relief than a serious contender for POTUS. But, everyone's entitled to their own.

Answer 4

Voters need to check into Senator Obama's voting record and past actions in the Senate if they want to know who this guy is. The only sensible thing that he has done in this campaign was to change his mind and agree with McCain that we need to drill offfshore. He makes beatiful speeches and impresses many people but his speeches are just that. Beautiful without any real meaning. He also came to his senses and stopped saying that he would pull our troops out of Iraq immediately. This poor guy will do anything to get elected and we don't need another Clinton in the White House.

Answer 5

There's definitely good cause to question it. I have a friend who is a natural born citizen, with American parents, but he grew up in Australia. He's lived in the States again for a few years now, but he considers himself to be Australian, despite his citizenship.



As Obama spent most of his childhood outside of the U.S., does he really think of himself as an American? Or is he just exploiting a loophole based on his mother's nationality? I'm not sure what the answer is, but Americans are well within reason to pose the question.



EDIT: My mistake. Most sources have Obama only living outside the U.S. for 4 1/2 years. For some reason, I thought it was 11. I was wrong.

Answer 6

Well Rev. Junior Senator Obama was dropped here (on his head) from his home planet of Obamulus from a space ship.



In case you are wondering where Obamulus is located, you go out 3 quackstars toward Orion, and hang a left at Ronulus (The planet that dropped Ron Paul here). You can't miss it.



To answer your question, he's not one of us.

He's an elitist arrogant buffoon that will find out what being under the bus means in November.

Answer 7

Obama is a stranger? Not to me. But then again, I've done my research. He's just a man from America running for president. He has a solid marrige, two beautiful kids and wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He married for love, not money.



Honestly, he is raising his daughters in this country. I can't see him doing anything drastic to endanger their future. I don't know why nobody else can see that. He's not a monster out to get us. He's just a man who wants to make our lives a little bit better after the fiasco of the last 8 years.



Edit: Mike..he didn't spend 'most' of his childhood outside of the US. Only a couple of years or so. That isn't 'most'.

Answer 8

I believe that secretly Obama and Michelle are laughing their arses off at just how gullible the American people have been. Perhaps Yes We Can was their slogan when the question was asked can we fool America?



Glen Ford; he isn't black...he's multi-racial. In fact he is the one exploiting his appearance and funny name and not the Republicans

Answer 9

Wasn't McCann born in Panama. Given that he wasn't born in America surely that means that there is more than something foreign about him. Anyway if you are going to apply an American-ness test which preludes people with Ancestory outside the states then all your presidents should have been from Apache, Cherokee, Iroquai etc... tribes/nations!

Answer 10

To answer that question, you must first ask yourself....who are Americans?



Americans are a group of people that have lineage from a huge melting pot of cultures. Some families have been around for longer than others....but for a society that has been around for far less than even 500 years, it is safe to say we are made up by a variety of cultures that make up the world.



I'd say Obama fits right in. =]

Answer 11

Read the book, "Obama Nation".



find out the TRUTH about the guy so many eagerly jumped to support, but didn't know a thing about.

Answer 12

If we are corrupt Mayor Daley Chicago politicans then Obama is one of us.

Answer 13

Which "us" do you mean? He's American like me, but not American like you.

Answer 14

Not only is Obama one of us, he reprents the best of us. That's why he got my vote.