The first black president will be a politician who is black.

There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.