Except for the first question about the stimulus package, Anderson did not challenge Obama on a single topic, this was not an interview in the true sense, it was just another way for CNN to give Obama a platform to say whatever he wanted without opposition.

Also, when is Anderson going to acknowledge that Obama is not African American, but multiracial? I wonder if Obama intends to educate his children on their white heritage as he did their black heritage.

Obviously, he meant that African-Americans are more rooted in the American experience than African immigrants to America, as they “don’t have a recent immigrant experience to draw on.” One would think a reporter would know how to consider context, or at least read all the way to the end of the sentence.

Whether the line becomes a conduit for a larger discussion on race in this country, or a talking point for the Obama detractors remains to be seen.

Well, it likely would have become neither, as it was a perfectly banal comment. However, you’re possibly deliberate misreading will of course provide plenty of fodder for the reality-challenged right wing. Good work!