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Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity offered to few presidents: the chance to set the course of the nation for decades, if not generations, to come. Who knows: perhaps in the near future, our grandchildren will spend money with Obama's face on it.

Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.

It may be a task that's so Herculean, but I think it's a worthy goal to try to open up America to individuals who just so happen to have a different skin color, that they have every right and every freedom to think what they want to think.

I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.