Thom had been blabbing about Engels, growing louder with every new Belgian beer. Now he was getting into how he didn’t think much of Obama. Imagine Obama’s actions from a white dude, no one would be impressed with him, he scoffed, and Isabel nodded seriously and obediently. To me it seemed possible that most people other than fancy-college types would love Obama way more if he were white, and it seemed explicitly because he was not that people were asking him to move heaven and earth. But I did not really follow politics.
