"When Your Name Is Barack Obama, It's Always Tight"

"When Your Name Is Barack Obama, It's Always Tight"

This line of argument was slightly off-putting when The One first deployed it in 2008 -- but at least back then, the question of whether Americans were prepared to elect the first African-American president with an admittedly "funny name" was very much open.  We did.  By a healthy margin.  But now that he's floundering in the polls, our president appeared to revisit that racial well on The View: