Should a black man play Barack Obama on television?

Sorry. But, ah, guys? Are we really clear on Fred Armisen's "genetic makeup"?

If we are going to get racist, let's use the apartheid South African classifications. Isn't virtually every African-American today "coloured" with some Caucasian in his heritage? I don't see a lot of native-born Americans on the bus that make me say, "Man, that guy really looks Zulu, or Mandingo, or Maasai!"

There was an African-American who wrote a fun book about taking whatever local ground transportation was available from Paris to Jo'burg. He said he could be walking in central Africa miles outside the next village and there would be kids running ahead of him shouting, "American, American." He said he was always recognized as non-African on sight and they would guess he was probably American from his height, weight and healthy appearance.

IT'S NOT SO MUCH ABOUT RACE - BUT WHO CAN GET THE JOB DONE. IT TAKES TIME TO PREPARE IMPRESSIONS AND TO IMITATE OBAMA, THAT'S NOT SUCH AN EASY TASK BECAUSE OBAMA'S STYLE IS SO COOL. REGGIE REG IS NOT JUST AN ORDINARY COMEDIAN, HE CAN MAKE YOU LAUGH WHEN YOU SEE HIS PERFORMANCE BECAUSE HIS DELIVERANCE AND TIMING IS SO REAL. REGGIE ALSO IMITATES DENZEL, JESSE, AL PACINO, JUST TO NAME A FEW.

REGGIE HAS PLAYED CLUBS IN SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO; AND PERFORMED ON "THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN"; HBO'S "P.DIDDY PRESENTS THE BAD BOYS OF COMEDY" AND CURRENTLY ACTING IN A STAGE PLAY IN THE NYC AREA. REGGIE HAS PERFECTED OBAMA'S MANNERISM'S & VOICE, WHICH CAN BE VIEWED ON YOUTUBE, MY.BREAK.COM, AND TOMORROWPICTURES.COM.

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Never mind race -- Fred Armisen just sucked in that skit. I wasn't impressed by Amy Poehler either, though I admit I haven't seen her earlier work. The skit was, as so often with SNL over the years, a big waste of potentially good comic material. Armisen did not capture Obama's bearing, mannerisms, or speech at all. It was as if he'd never seen Obama and was imitating someone else's description of him.

SNL has had white people play blacks before, like Jesse Jackson, to great comedic effect. As an Obama supporter, I was no where close to being offended.

Obama has played himself on SNL, and in a color blind world, finding the best "Obama" shouldn't be limited to skin color.

Personally, I'm a little ticked that the media and tv continuously refers to Obama as the black candidate. Breaking News: OBAMA IS BI-RACIAL ... white mother ... black father. Ever notice they never refer to McCain as the Irish/American candidate? And speaking of the transplanted Arizona Leprechaun, why did he facilitate the forced "eminent domain' of 10,000 Native Americans off their ancestral land so a political contributor could expand copper mining operations? This hypocrite is beyond the pale.

If SNL should be politically correct and find a black man to play Obama, can they still keep Mr. Armisen to play his white half?