That is certainly a sterile way of looking at what you said. I see Obama as running as a democratic candidate that also happens to be black. You see him as a "democratic black African American" (double emphasized btw unless you REALLY want to get into semantics). Maybe that is the difference between us?

Would you normally say McCain is running as a republican, old, white, adulturer candidate? One has to wonder why your dobule (sic) standard AuntyM?