I suspect you didn't make it to the third paragraph of Buck's post before you pulled the posting trigger. That's the one where he says he'll vote for Obama in November. While I don't agree with his reasons, and my logic is like yours minus the vitriol, I'm willing to give partial credit for doing the right thing even for reasons different from mine.

I'm not willing to be so arrogant as to dismiss Buck's reasons as entirely wrong, either. While race is certainly much too narrow a criteria to use to pick a leader, by itself, the potential for making even a minor positive adjustment in the American psyche shouldn't be overlooked. I think that a big reason that many people are "smitten" by Obama is that he holds out the prospect of psychological healing, of a restoration of hope and optimism. And god knows the country desperately needs a little hope, after eight years of Bush. If one thread that contributes to that healing and that optimism has to do with the symbolic act of electing a black man President, I'm not going to turn up my nose at it out of dogmatic purity.

We need all the good karma we can get right now.