This Great Black Hope has too tough an opponent

Traditionally, American presidents have been surrounded by an aura which kept the jackals away. For many years after his death, the lid was kept on John F. Kennedy’s sexual problems and there was a strong reluctance to get rid of the amoral, drug-addicted, Richard Nixon. If Kennedy and Nixon were revered when they did not deserve to be, then the devaluing of Obama so soon after his inauguration is astonishing.

But, should it be astonishing - or even surprising?

Once the blacks were no longer supporting whites as their slaves, they seem to have been regarded as polluting the image White America had of itself as creating the greatest nation in history.

It is a tragedy that circumstances have conspired against Black America which desperately hoped that their Great Black Hope would have a successful first term.