The Obamas are great role models for the Black community, indeed any minority.
The fact that they have got this far in the Presidential campaign (and look odds on to snare the Dem nomination) has also thrust them into maximum visibility.
Good on them I say, and kudos to the USA too- I would not have believed this possible a year ago. The USA, like any democracy, allows a wide range of freedom of expression and thought. What we tend to read here is the more sensationalist stuff of course, but the plain fact is it is the Polls that speak loudest about what the average man on the street thinks, and Obama is a serious contender indeed.
Which explains the hysterical nature of the anti Obama blogs, at the end of the day. Keep 'em coming- it's amusing.
