The entire Republican party is just like the fool I work for - not internet savvy, they underestimated it and insisted on using telephones and connecting the old school way.
Never heard of myspace, facebook, online networking, don't like text messages, refuse to even use voice mail. Oh, they don't know how much they miss when they don't pay attention to online community and the power of digital freedom, thank you Al Gore!!!

Also, they rely solely on being 'known' - having lots of money and old guard connections; and took for granted that some unknown who happened to be black wasn't going to find enough people interested to even worry about him. By the time they started to worry, it was too late and they were caught with their Depends down. They underestimated the people that Obama never once took for granted.

This new school blue-turned-white-collar electronically-savvy young black lawyer from out of the god-knows-where whipped their old tired stuffed-shirt lunatic elitist fuddy-duddy can't-click-on-an-email-without-written-instructions part-fascist butts!!!

Go Obama 08!!!

It gets so messy when their heads start exploding...

Axelrod - behind the scenes and advisory; not a whole lot of online presence.

Plouffe - front lines for all enemy attacks on and offline.

Obama was covered on both sides, internal and external. The two did the same remarkable job from both ends.

and though i suppose i should be celebratory over the idea that Obama technically would be making history in terms of his partially African-American background, i also find it grating that he would get historical credit for a cultural Blackness he does not personally possess except by way of matrimony.

I don't know how old you are but suppose you are at least 47.  What makes you think Obama is not as culturally black as you?  Or what makes you think he has not experienced the same "black american experience" as you?  Just because your ancestors were slaves it does not mean black culture is an inheritance of some genetic sorts.  There are white kids adopted by black families who have a greater understanding of "cultural blackness" than your average spoiled black middle class kid.   People like you are always complaining.  For a while it was, and at times it still is, a light skin black does not have the same experience as a dark black.... yadda yadda.

Any man whose skin is of any hue of black in America experiences the SAME bias treatment you'd encounter.  So Obama went home to a white family?  So what?  When he steps out every day he's still a black man in the eyes of everyone who encountered him except his immediate family who saw him as their son, brother and grandson.  When people stop looking at his color as you are looking at his lack there of, maybe America would be a better place.  Yesterday millions of white and black people proved your argument is as old and useless and the old segregation laws.

Your view of "only certain" people can experience this cultural blackness you talk about is faulty.   Any Spanish Caribbean-American whose skin is black would tell you so.   Racist people can't tell the difference between a "partical" African American and a full blooded (whatever that means) "black" American.  My son is half Black and half Rican.  Does this mean his cultural blackness is less significant than yours?  If you feel so much dislike towards an African why even bother using the term African American at all? 

Seriously what makes you more culturally black?  Your grand or great grand parents experiences are not your experiences, so stop riding on other people's coattail.  Those are THEIR BLACK CULTURAL EXPERIENCES NOT YOURS.