from babs

So here is an interesting take on Obama by Richard Rodriguez in Salon:

Most Hispanics in the United States are mestizos -- a racial mix of European, African and New World Indian. Most Hispanics would understand Barack Obama if he came to us, not as an African-American but, like us, as a person of confused bloodlines.

Rodriguez also reclassifies Hillary Clinton. While Toni Morrison famously dubbed Bill Clinton the 'first black president', in his article Rodriguez talks about Hillary as a possible first Latina in Chief.