What if Michelle was his second wife, and 18 years younger, and worth hundreds of millions. How would that have played for a first-term senator from Chicago who happened to be black?

He had to perfect, like Jackie Robinson had to be perfect.

No temper, no anger , no aggravation.

This is how far we’ve come.

Robinson had to be perfect to play the infield for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Obama had to be perfect to become President-elect of the United States.

It is a long way.

Perhaps the need to be perfect will be next to fall.

Clay Horning

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cfhorning@normantranscript.com