Marion, I don’t know what proof you would require of my race or my education (and for the record, I never said I was a CEO; I am a senior vice president), nor do I feel compelled to provide any. I wouldn’t say the company that I work for is all that “prestigious”, unless you love watching television.

you obviously and mistakenly think that all African American people are monolithic in their thought processes. If you take Obama to task, you can’t possible be black. What kind of juvenile thinking is that? 2/3 of my extended family supports Obama, but 1/3 does not. And incidentally, the ones who support Obama also happen to be some of the dimmest bulbs in the bunch who also blindly proclaimed OJ’s innocence in the face of common sense and evidence.

All blacks must support Obama? How ironic coming from a woman who seethes when other make assumptions about the color of an African American’s skin. Just as you and I recognize that being African American doesn’t mean necessarily having dark skin, you should also recognize that being African American doesn’t mean that one should blindly follow Obama off a cliff and refuse to hold him accountable for his lack of core values and alarming propensity to change his positions.

And for the record, it’s offensive for you to challenge my race or education when you have no proof whatsoever to the contrary. I spent more than 17 HOURS along with 84 other editors of Harvard Law Review in a marathon election process in 1990 trying to get Obama elected as the first African American president of that publication.

I am a “fake” playing both ends against the middle? Please, I am only playing one end: I’m looking for truth whereas you and so many others seemed resigned to look the other way.

And here’s another blow to your long list of presumptions: I am a woman.

Lastly, it is curious that you have no response to the actual assertions in my post. No problem with his pre-fascist FISA vote? No problem with his Bush-esque blurring of church and state? No problem with threats against Pakistan.

What will it take for you to wake up and realize that Obama is simply the “velvet glove” that the Establishment is using to accomplish what they would have trouble accomplishing under McCain? And it’s working. Because people like yourself are OVERLOOKING troublesome signs that you would readily identify in any other candidate, simply because he is Obama.

I swear, Marion. You would probably vote for George Bush — if he were black, charming and in his mid-40s.