Thursday, October 23, 2008

What if the Tables Were Turned???

Thanks to Bev Vrooman for this insightful email. Click my comment, below, for full text.
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linda turner said...

Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders. It is
> average people with the wisdom to select the best prepared. Facts are
> powerful!! Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched
> around?.....think about it. Would the country's collective point of
> view be different? Could racism be the culprit? Ponder the
> following:
> What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the
> stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage
> daughter?
> What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law
> Review?
> What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his
> graduating class?
> What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a
> divorcee?
> What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after
> a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to
> his standards?
> What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a
> long affair while he was still married?
> What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain
> killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
> What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
> What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five
> were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major
> political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late
> 1980s and early 1990s.)
> What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
> What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
> What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included
> discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
> What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many
> occasions, a serious anger management problem?
> What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer
> distribution?
> What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
> You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality,
> do you
> really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are? This is
> what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in
> one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color
> difference.
> Educational Backgrounds:
> Barack Obama:
> 1. Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization
> in International Relations.
> 2. Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
> Joseph Biden:
> 1. University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political
> Science.
> 2. Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
> VS.
> John McCain:
> 1. United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899.
> Sarah Palin:
> 1. Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
> 2. North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general studies
> 3. University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
> 4. Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
> 5. University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A.in Journalism.
>
> Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest
> offices in the land as well as our standing in the world.

October 25, 2008 at 4:38 PM

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