Presidential Firsts

1. glen
   December 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

   Black? I thought he was mixed.

2. AD PR NY
   December 15th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

   http://digg.com/politics/Many_Insisting_Obama_Is_Not_Black_New_Terms_S uggested

   Here are examples of the new terms being thrown around to describe Obama.

   It appears this has become a VERY controversial issue.

   In theory, there have been 4 other black Presidents using the AMERICAN standard of race. This was a big controversy when it was revealed in the 1970s after searching through their ancestries

3. Gail Pink
   December 15th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

   I got 64%: better than I expected to do!

4. Max
   December 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

   Obama is not the first black president in the world. There have been many. We can look to their experience to see what we can expect of an Obama presidency.

5. Gauldar
   December 15th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

   MAx, I think when people here say "president", they are only refering to the US. As for your comment:

   We can look to their experience to see what we can expect of an Obama presidency.

   There have been plenty of white presidents, and GWB turned out to be the worst one. Just because there were some good ones doesn't mean they will all turn out the same way. I am probibly just misreading your sentence.

6. Miss Cellania
   December 15th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

   I made it a point to say "first black US president."

7. konstit
   December 15th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

   How strange... the second I wrote "Race" my (very balanced) comment went up in smoke, and I´m presented with a "... troll be gone" ?

8. Evil Pundit
   December 15th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

   At the rate his corruption scandals are brewing up, Obama may become the first President to be impeached before taking office!

9. konstit
   December 15th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

   Also, I too scored 45%, meaning that it´s all guesswork at that level - I haven´t a clue about american presidents

   Well, stupidity is multiracial... and I can see that rather than censorship, it was I who deleted what ever it was I wrote before, and now I can blame only the Thinkpad keyboard that sometimes really pisses me off

   Anyways, to expect from an Obama-presidency the same as what "African" presidents so far has achieved is as relevant as declaring every european, asian... what-not, idiots because of what a famous autrian did, for what his soviet counterpart did, for what Mao or Pol-pot managed to do, and lets not forget about those crazy south-americans !
   That said, if aussies weren´t so stupid, they too would cause mayhem !

   (Any spelling mistakes because english is not my first language)

10. Jenny
    December 15th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    Yeah, he's actually the first bi-racial president of America. We still haven't had the first African-American president.

11. garbonzo
    December 16th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    I got a 67%. On the one hand, this is better than average. On the other hand, I am a History teacher, so I should have nailed this!!!

12. DaMamaJama
    December 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    45% - but I'm Canadian and have no clue about American Presidents. Not bad for guessing most of them.

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