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It appears that a week from today Barack Obama will become the Democratic nominee for President. On May 20th he should have the majority of the delegates (without Michigan and Florida) to claim victory. So, it will finally be over. And now the hard part starts.
Obama will have to start the process of picking his Vice President, winning over the women who supported Hillary, starting a dialog with while working class folks and preparing to be swift boated. He will have to start letting voters know why they should vote for him and not McCain. He will take another look at some of his statements made in the primary that he might want to modify for the fall. He will have to in large his campaign team by asking some of the Edwards and Clinton folks to join him. He will need to raise money and perhaps help Hillary in retiring her debt. And he will need a rest.
Senator Obama will also need to take a hard look at what he must do to become the first Black President of the U.S. How does he get the votes of Anglo working class males (and even some females)who are not going to be happy to vote for a Black man regardless of how qualified he is?
You hear the comments, read the jokes, see the smirks and understand that some folks just cannot now today visualize their selves voting for a Black man for President. Can Obama take race out of the campaign? Can he make McCain/Bush the real issue and concentrate on the economy and Iraq? Can voters look at Senator Obama and see a President, not just a Black President?
It will be a very interesting election.
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