Apparently He's Black Enough But...

Democratic voters are turning out in record numbers across the country to answer the question posed by some in their party earlier in this election cycle: Is Barack Obama black enough?

With almost 9,000,000 votes posted in the win column for the charismatic Senator from Illinois, it is safe to project at this point in the race that he is, in fact, black enough. Reached by telephone this morning at his campaign headquarters the Senator said, "I noticed this morning while I was shaving that I am still black and still white. And also that sometimes when you shave you can make some really neat shaving cream sculptures with the razor."

Since his Iowa upset over Senator Hillary Clinton, (a candidate most people are pretty certain is not black enough), a wave of enthusiasm for the one term Illinois Senator has swept states in the Democratic primaries from coast to coast.

But in a weekend poll conducted by the research firm “Two Guys and A Speakerphone,” the numbers indicate that while he is clearly considered black enough, many now disagree on whether he is Irish enough, Jewish enough, Polish enough, Mexican enough, or Italian enough.

In Seattle, first-time voter Norman Fischbaum said, “Black enough? Who cares? I think being President is probably something like one of those 40 hour-a-week jobs. I’m just wondering if he’s caffeinated enough.”

Across the country in the nearly all white state of Maine, Sunday’s primary supplied even more momentum to the Obama campaign as voters handed him yet another victory over Senator Clinton. When ask if he felt Obama would ultimately take the nomination, Bar Harbor lobsterman Marty Norton replied “Why not, he seems like a nice man."