This is a statement that actually can be statistically tested. We can compare whether he got more or less votes than a fellow white democrat in every state. People have looked into this and Obama mostly less (in the South, obviously) or the same votes as the white democrat. So yes, people would have voted for him if he had been another white guy, and won by an even larger margin had he been white.

Which as I said, makes you a racist. And no, I don't say that lightly, but you've earned it. If you are a good person you will re-evaluate your unwarranted prejudice against the manner he got elected. If you are on the other hand a closeted bigot pretending not to be one you'll simply dig your heels further.

Say what? his father was a multimillionaire.

Of course you won't, a republican choosing ideology over facts, what else is news?

Which is false. He got the job for the same reason he won the coveted Harvard Law Review editorship: he was damn bright one you could tell. The first time I read a speech from him in the early 2000s I knew he would one day be president, because you see, some of us can recognize talent while others like you cannot see past the color of a man's skin.

And sorry, but no, being promoted to VicePresident of dad's company like the Koch Jrs. is not an actual job accomplishment (or promoted to Captain in dad's navy for that matter). You are just reiterating the "born in third base, claim to have worked your way up there" point I was making. Thank you.

The world exists outside your limited universe. The question has been asked and answered, and no, they have not outperformed the stock indices, which is why I brought it up.

Dude, he got where he is in spite of the color of his skin. I mean, in spite of racists like you who are so disconnected with the world that they think a black person would have an advantage in todays societyy simply because a few token morsels thrown their way in the name of affirmative action.

I do, and it doesn't bode well for you dude, with your racist comments about Obama.

Sorry, but the question is "have they done sginificantly better than if they had simply invested their parents wealth in the stock market" and the answer is no. So "running successful businesses" when all they can do is match the stockmarket is a red herring.

McCain was the son of an Admiral and last in his class. He would never have been a senator without those paternal qualifications.

Hillary is there because of her husband and Kerry is well known to have been born in the right place, just like the Kennedys. No one else is pretending otherwise. Yet republicans born in 3rd base always act like they earned it and make derogatory comments about people who are trying to work their way around the bases (e.g. the 43% comment from Mitt). That is why my list is biased towards one party.

Obama is the furthest you can be from being on 3rd base. This is such an indisputable fact that you lost all credibility there.

We were chipping away at it, but not lately. Social mobility which used to be inordinately high in the USA has been declining since Reagan, and by all measures the decline is accelerating.

You left out the biggest factor: the end of the meritocracy.

We are fast moving to a system where the person in charge, be it at a company or in government is no longer the most capable, but the one born in third base. Have a look at GW Bush, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Koch brothers, Donald Trump, etc.

The repeal of the inheritance tax will only amplify this effect.

It sounds like you are watching traffic inside of your network, and not the interface between your edge router, and the ISP device.

You could be missing many things; incoming traffic that your edge router drops, retransmissions between your edge router and the ISP device, and firmware/config updates for the ISP device.

We really need more detail.

Congratulations; you've just given the religious right all the authority they need to regulate abortion out of existence.

This. I was recently looking for an app to use an alarm clock and most of them wanted access to my pictures, for x-sakes!!

Actually, that's pretty much what happened to Sergei Krikalev who was scheduled to return to earth in October 1991, but stayed in the Mir Space Station until March 1992 due to the collapse of the Soviet Union.