"Look how Obama is idolized in this country just because he is black."

Come again? Americans as a whole are "idolizing" this guy? I think West Virginians and people in other states made it clear that they would never vote for someone who isn't white. The media glommed onto him because he was the new guy on the block, he came out of nowhere to win Iowa and beat a huge fundraising & insider machine (Clinton) and oh, he's not the kind of candidate we usually see. And for better or worse, the media focused on this all way too much. I supported John Edwards and felt that he was marginalized from the start - no one really saw this as a three-way race.

Don't forget that people voted for both Obama AND Clinton in roughly even amounts. So you could easily say that people "idolized" Clinton - to the point where they're breaking from the party because she didn't win. But I guess you don't see it that way.