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Originally Posted by KSigkid
DrPhil - do you think that those same race-class issues play into why Obama's background has been more discussed than say Clinton's (where he had a rough home life and an alcoholic father)?
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I think it's race-class and experience. Clinton was more known than Obama so he had played the game long enough to get a pass.
Obama was a newbie. So he was a newbie, had his family and class background, had his name, and was relatively young in addition to being black. The "great orator" stuff was used to buffer the effect of the criticisms.