There are other aspects of the sympathy for the president. For one thing, he's the first president in the history of the nation to have African-Americans in a circle of friends. Secondly, the president is actually culturally very Afro-American. This ironically is true of a lot of southerners, but he's unusual in that, unlike other white southerners, he doesn't hide the fact. And then there's this experience, which he's gone through, which I think many Afro-Americans find easy to relate to.
Southern culture is black.
I mean, it is powerfully influenced by African-Americans and all southerners, all white southerners are very black. Americans have acknowledged that his right to privacy justifies his attempt to conceal actions they consider to be his business and no one else's. I think it's important to emphasize the fact that there are no absolutes in our moral precepts. Kant may have believed that, and some fascists do. But all our precepts tend to be relative to each other, and there are many occasions in which there are clashes, and we have to decide which trumps the other, which takes precedence.