By Dick Morris on June 10, 2008  Published in the UK Times.
Hard racial divisions have softened in America but fear of the
“other” persists. Their possible next president has a strange
name. He grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia. He had a Muslim Kenyan
father who left when he was a baby. He made his political career
in the cesspool of American politics — the traditionally corrupt
Chicago Democratic machine. His pastor of twenty years after
whose sermons he entitled his book seems to hate white people in
general and America in particular (despite getting $15 million
in federal funding for his church). His wife says she is now
proud of America for the first time in her adult life – and
she’s in her mid forties. He is a bit of a reach for the average
American voter.  If he were white, with similar associations, he
would be suspect. But he comes from a world few white voters
know or understand and the fear lingers that he is some kind of
latter-day Manchurian candidate, a sleeper agent, poised to take
control of