Frank:
No, Barack O'Bama is half black, half white.
You failed here to answer the question, and you also failed to see the point I was making. That is two failings in one post, not bad for you.
The question was, at what percentage does Obama cease to be 'black' and suddenly become 'white'? Obviously 50-50 is still black to you, so what percentage of blackness makes someone white? Its a simple question.
And the point of this enquiry goes to the heart of the Silver-Boris airport problem. For far too long now, people have been fudging issues and jumping on popular bandwagons, simply because they were popular, and not because they were sensible, just or right. And PC issues and the adoption of double-speak go right to the heart of this social canker.
One of dire the consequences of PCism, was that everyone in politics became afraid of saying what they thought, or what was true, or what was reasonable - just like you and others here will not admit that Obama is as white as he is black. Thus difficult topics and difficult decisions like Silver-Boris airport were kicked into the long grass, because they might be controversial. OOhh, we cannot cross with the PC lobby, we cannot cross with the Green lobby, we cannot deal with the NIMBYs, we cannot change people's lives - the Focus Group thinks that may be unpopular and we may loose votes. This is Cameron in 2012, mired in fudge and without a resolute bone in his body.
Now, however, we have a new-model politician who is able to grasp the mettle and tell us things as they are - Heathrow is a mistaken planning proposal from the 1940s, that has grown into a monstrous carbuncle in the 21st century. And as Boris says, it is about time to right that wrong. Boris is Cincinatus, and he can and will lay down his plough to fight for the nation (even if there is an element of ego in his designs.)
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