What if?

[Sheldonrs]

How Racism Works...

What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5?
What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

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.

You are The Boss... which team would you hire?

With America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc.

Educational Background:

Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna (inappropriate term) Laude

Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Now, which team are you going to hire ?

PS: What if Barack Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter....

[DanaC]

*Blinks*

Superb.

Though, if recent history is anything to go by, being the more eloquent educated candidate might actually play against you.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Sheldonrs

PS: What if Barack Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter....

I doubt none of the lefty's from the Daily Kos would make fun of him. He's black. The teen pregnancy was 83/1000 among Hispanics (twice the overall rate),
63.7 among non-Hispanic blacks (however, blacks have a slightly higher teen pregnancy rate than Hispanics),
54.7 among American Indian or Alaska Natives, and
26.6 among non-Hispanic whites.

http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealt...ntReproHealth/

It is more accepted. And a near ethnic crisis. Pretty sad. But hey daughters of white chicks aren't suppose to have premarital sex right? Esp if their mommy was elected to run as VP on a Republickin ticket.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Though, if recent history is anything to go by, being the more eloquent educated candidate might actually play against you.

I think we may be over that now, its been a painful eight years. The smart, eloquent, perceptive guy is going to win this time.

[Aliantha]

Oh but Georgie has provided a plethora of faux pas to keep the world giggling the whole time although I suppose many Americans feel a bit red faced at the choice they made in the end.

ETA: Mind you, Australia's previous PM also offered comediens plenty to work with too.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Oh but Georgie has provided a plethora of faux pas to keep the world giggling the whole time although I suppose many Americans feel a bit red faced at the choice they made in the end.

No doubt about that.

[Sheldonrs]

And while I shudder at the thought of Sarah Palin getting anywhere NEAR DC, just imagine her exclaiming how she can see Russia from Alaska everytime someone asks her about foreign policy.

[Aliantha]

Yes well, you can see France from England, and we all know how that's worked out historically. lol

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Yes well, you can see France from England, and we all know how that's worked out historically. lol

Oh God that has to be HOF material.

[Aliantha]

For a minute there I was trying to make the link between my post and David Hasselhoff. lol

Then I realized you meant something else.

[TheMercenary]

You crazy woman! Damm prego's. A condition that will screw your mind up.





(kidding)

[Aliantha]

OH yes, my brain doesn't work so well some days lately. I'm sure there those who would say it's never worked too well though. lol Those people can come kiss my arse though.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

An education doesn't compensate for being void of character, and character seems an ill-recognized necessity for the office of President. Bill Clinton was smart and eloquent -- and not Presidential timber because of the nature of his character. And it showed.

Dubya has more and better character than his critics and his active enemies have ever admitted -- or for that matter ever comprehended, for they conspicuously lack such character to the most astonishing degree and are thus ill qualified to perceive it. This is what their writings and their opinions consistently show.

And from Little Diomede Island, you can see Big Diomede island, which belongs to Russia, even with some haze in the air as long as visibility is greater than 4 kilometers. The question becomes just why one is on Diomede Island in the first place, as it is a uniform possibly volcanic truncated cone with nothing much to recommend it as a destination but its symmetry -- of profile if not of plan.

So, was Sarah Palin the Sarahcuda actually wrong then?

[Sundae]

Sorry, it is an interesting post and makes serious points.
But this cracked me up

Magna (inappropriate term) Laude

[DanaC]

ummm...I don't get it. Why is Magna inappropriate?