President Obama Racial Issues: From Cornel West to Newt Gingrich

Au contraire, say those on the other side. They look at that caramel-colored president and see the incarnation of all that they fear and loathe.

Hear Rush Limbaugh on Obama's race:

-- "If Obama weren't black, he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu."

-- Obama wouldn't have given the order to take out the Somali pirates if he had known they were "actually young black Muslim teenagers."

-- "Obama has disowned his white half ... he's decided to go all in on the black side."

-- In "Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering."

-- Obama is "more African in his roots than he is American" and is "behaving like an African colonial despot."

-- "Obama's entire economic program is reparations."

Thus the debate among those who view everything through a racial prism: "Obama's too black!" "He's not black enough!"

It's absurd. In truth, it reveals more about those who indulge in this pastime than about the president of the United States, who seems absolutely comfortable in his own skin.

Read the rest of this column at the Washington Post.