You're missing the key point of my claim: in 2008 you could literally take your comment, replace gay with black, and it would've been just as "credible". And ye

You're missing the key point of my claim: in 2008 you could literally take your comment, replace gay with black, and it would've been just as "credible". And yet Obama was enormously popular and successful. Lots of people even made colorist remarks about him being "white passing"!