This time it was about Obama's "angst" as a kid at Punahou School, an elite prep school in Hawaii.

Obama Classmates Saw a Smile, But No Racial Turmoil
by Richard A. Serrano
Los Angeles Times, Sunday, March 11, 2007

The kicker says: "Hawaii classmates recall him as a happy kid who fit in. They say they had no idea of the racial tension inside."

They say that today Sen. Obama is "trying to show that he understands the indignities of racism and the economic troubles that many believe continue to flow from the legacy of slavery."

Excuse me? What’s that reference to "economic troubles that flow"?

How about "economic troubles that flow" from gross inequality, discrimination, bad schools, deindustrialization, outsourcing to countries with ridiculously low wages, crony capitalism, and a generally f**ked-up corrupt Republican-dominated Establishment?

The election is a year and a half away and this African-American is already sick and tired of MSM bull**** about Obama’s "blackness."

The Times published a picture from the school yearbook:

The caption says: "A 1976 photo from the Punahou School yearbook shows ninth-grader Barack Obama -- front row, fourth from right -- with his class."

The kid looks cool. Were you that cool in the 9th grade? I, myself, was a total geek. So, the kid went through changes in adolescence. So what? That’s what kids do in adolescence!

Nobody worries about the "angst" of the very self-righteous Rudolph Giuliani growing up in a large extended family that included cops, criminals, firefighters and Mafia hoodlums.

My dear wife does not agree with my FLAME-ON about this article. She says if all the talk about Obama raises the consciousness of a lot of clueless folks about the perniciousness of racism that's a good thing.

I respectfully disagree. Want to have a serious discussion about U.S. Sen. Barack Obama for president? Talk about the issues and the man’s philosophy.

Want to have a serious discussion about racism and the "economic troubles that flow" from the U.S. Establishment? Bring it on.

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