I think that to run for President you have to be an unusual type of person, as you are in the public and media eye.Bgile wrote:Obama is a very unusual person. "Just another Democrat" probably would not be capable of accomplishing as much. He is also a black man. If you are a right wing radical, that is a very bad thing. So you try to kill him. Powell's wife opposed his running for President for that very reason.
I have already commented on the stereo-typing of Obama being called ''black'' when in fact he is not empirically that colour. We seem to have a society that abhors racism but still makes issues of skin colour which in the case of Obama are not even accurate.
It is also an unfortunate fact that US Presidents become the target of every nutter out to make a name for themselves, by trying to assassinate. But this is faced by any President, whatever their skin colour or politics. That is the job of the secret service to sort out.