<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Obama and Whites]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[A reader writes:</p><blockquote><p>That was the best <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/11/dissent-of-the.html">dissent of the day</a>? Ouch. I would love to see the others.&nbsp; Really. I'd love to know the depths of strangeness that your inbox fills with. I'm weird like that. Rebuttal to the dissent: As an independent, I don't need to relate to Sen. Obama. He is a half-black lawyer with a disjointed childhood, I am a pasty white computer nerd with a stable family, and it is not going to happen. Obama actually has figured out what the Democrats have been blind to all this time. 1.) Show up&nbsp; 2.) Give me a reason&nbsp; 3.) Do not try to enamor me.]]></html></oembed>