<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6824d791-9ba8-43c1-a94b-8e09fae797ea/3E4F1E9E-26C9-41B3-8246-B479761522A2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/really-high-hopes/" href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/really-high-hopes/" style="font-size: 11px;">opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/really-high-hopes/"><H3 class="entry-title"><A title="Permanent Link to Really High Hopes" rel="bookmark" href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/really-high-hopes/">Really High Hopes</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/really-high-hopes/"><P>Are African Americans expecting too much of Barack Obama? Emanuel Cleaver, a Democratic representative from Missouri who was also the first black mayor of Kansas City, Mo., writes on the op-ed page of The Washington Post that “Obama will be the first black president, not the black president first.” But <A target="new" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/16/AR2008121602478.html">part of Obama’s challenge will be to manage “the extravagant expectations of African Americans and other minority groups,”</A> Cleaver says. 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The authors, Tobin Harshaw and Chris Suellentrop, are staff editors for The New York Times Op-Ed page. </P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/really-high-hopes/" href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/really-high-hopes/" style="font-size: 11px;">opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/really-high-hopes/">I know something about what Obama faces. 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