So sorry for you after reading your editorial. I could just see you getting all puffed up on how you're going to change everyone's minds on Obama. Your bad...seriously. After the last eight years of crap, excuse us for thinking this guy is amazing. Pretty much that's your fault for putting in office the " Village Idiot". My friend, a devout Republican, told me eight years ago that I was right, Bush was a moron. He said and I quote, " But the Republicans aren't' idiots and they are going to totally use him". Well that worked out well. Eight years with NO functioning brain cells in the White House!!!!!!!! A trillion dollar fake war and thousands of dead Americans not to mention thousands of dead Iraqs'. How about an economy in the toilet and when asked Bush said he didn't know it was that bad. He was and is the laughing stock of the whole world in his shit kicker boots!

Democrats on the whole are NOT racists so it was no big deal that this brilliant guy was black. Enter the Republican reaction to a black president and we have a whole new movement of White Supremacists. You were disappointed in his reaction to the Iran riots. They said he did the absolute smartest thing by saying it was horrible and butting out. You would have probably wanted a Bush Fake War scenario. Sorry Mike not enogh soldiers! They're all dead or maimed.

My son and his wife and my daughter and her husband are all registered Repubs and they all voted for Obama. This even though my son is one of the ones Obama wants to tax as he makes well over $250,000 thousand a year. My sister and her attorney husband are all Repubs and voted for Obama. All of them said that they would all remain Repubs but NEVER vote Repub again. They said it's the best. They can say the worst things against the Repubs and no body says anything cuz they're "Repubs"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry Mike but don't look for the young ones in 2012. They're far more savvy than you give them credit for. They''re all repulsed by the Becks, Limbaughs, Coulters, Ingrahans, Reillys. Somebody stop me please cuz I could go on al lday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Mr. Barone,
I find your article "Take another look at Obama" quite intersting from a certain point of view. From the look of your picture, I am about your same age and ethnicity.
Your addressing the "Dear Young Obama Voter" to me opens the door to the Social Dominance Theory of In-Groups versus Out-Groups. You write your article as if you are speaking for the youth or young Obama voter, but in fact speak for yourself and your social group identifier of, white, middle age, male. Of course there are other identifiers of your social group, but youth is not one of them. I counted at least eight times you wrote on different issues, but always insinuating as if you spoke for the young voter who voted for Obama. I have to admit that this is a "slick" approach, but one that I at least noticed.
To me you did little to hide your position, one that I believe represents your "Social In-Group", but at the same time you came across under the guise of supplanting the feelings and thoughts of young Obama voters.
This is a "sly" piece of journalsim that to me reveals your "in-group indentifiers" and their accompanying biases and the projection on to the "young Obama voters" Out-Group and your biased view of them.
Larry Coonradt

Re: Larry Coonradt
Mr. Coonradt. I was a student of yours in the 2001 Human Services class at los pinos. If this is the same Mr. Coonradt, would you e-mail me at: msdadude@aol.com