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I believe he's made a beneficial difference, but I think his Presidency has also revealed how deeply racial prejudice is still ingrained in America and how certain factions that have large enough numbers to sway elections can be manipulated by things that shouldn't be allowed to play such a large role in an intelligent society at this point in human history i.e. religion or at least the Christian Fundamentalist version of it.

I think that if Obama had been a white man named Smith or Jones with basically the same ideas that the vocal Right Wingers would not have been able to influence America as they have over the last eight years and that many elections that Democrats lost during the past six years would have gone the other way, and I believe America would be even better for it.