I got two viral emails this week that I love. I forwarded the first (it had lots of photos of an anti-Palin rally in Anchorage where the participants went to the trouble of making signs like "Hockey Mama for Obama" and "Voted for Her Once -- Never Again"), so if your mailbox got clogged uploading 4 MB of photos, I apologize.
But this one, I thought I'd put here:
But this one, I thought I'd put here:
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight . . .
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.'
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig, and Track, you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
If you spent 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black resident of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local sportscaster girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don't represent America's.
If you're husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now.
I did some checking on the Internet, and I think the original author might be someone named Alan Goodman, posting in the Comments section of a post on Don Surber's blog where he asked people to list their five reasons why McCain has pulled ahead. Of course, according to the most recent Gallup polls, the race is pretty close and Obama has regained his pre-conventions narrow lead. If the news on Wall Street continues to be bad, I figure the polls will continue to edge toward Barack.
Also according to those recent polls, all Palin has done is energize the Republican base. That's fine. I'm glad the election is close. I'm glad the Democrats aren't getting complacent, figuring we can't lose. I'm glad independents and seldom-voters are getting involved. We need record numbers. Of course, I say that because I think more people voting = an Obama victory.
I've made my peace with the fact that there are people out there who won't vote for him, no way no how. They may say it's because of Hillary; they may say they genuinely believe he's been indoctrinated into the Muslim faith since childhood (and not ever ask themselves why that should even matter -- not all Muslims are actively trying to destroy America, you know); they may openly admit that it's because he's black. But I don't care about those people, and if McCain wins because there are more of "those sorts" in this country than I'd realized, well, then maybe we're just going to get the president we deserve, in a bad way.
But I don't think so. I think there are a lot of smart people out there who have moved away from politics and elections. Well, go register to vote, why don't you? Cast your ballot, get involved, make a difference. That's what will get Barack Obama elected -- people smart enough to have gotten disillusioned checking back in. Because if one thing's true, it's this: John McCain and Sarah Palin represent the very sorts of politicians who turned people off in the first place.
My favorite sign at the anti-Palin rally in Anchorage? That's a picture I'll share:
It's the sign on the left, mocked up to look like the McCain/Palin signs we see now. Only, doesn't that just sum them up? He's reckless and she's inexperienced. So people who just have to vote against Barack Obama can do so, but I hope they have half a clue what they're voting for.
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.'
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig, and Track, you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
If you spent 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black resident of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local sportscaster girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don't represent America's.
If you're husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now.
I did some checking on the Internet, and I think the original author might be someone named Alan Goodman, posting in the Comments section of a post on Don Surber's blog where he asked people to list their five reasons why McCain has pulled ahead. Of course, according to the most recent Gallup polls, the race is pretty close and Obama has regained his pre-conventions narrow lead. If the news on Wall Street continues to be bad, I figure the polls will continue to edge toward Barack.
Also according to those recent polls, all Palin has done is energize the Republican base. That's fine. I'm glad the election is close. I'm glad the Democrats aren't getting complacent, figuring we can't lose. I'm glad independents and seldom-voters are getting involved. We need record numbers. Of course, I say that because I think more people voting = an Obama victory.
I've made my peace with the fact that there are people out there who won't vote for him, no way no how. They may say it's because of Hillary; they may say they genuinely believe he's been indoctrinated into the Muslim faith since childhood (and not ever ask themselves why that should even matter -- not all Muslims are actively trying to destroy America, you know); they may openly admit that it's because he's black. But I don't care about those people, and if McCain wins because there are more of "those sorts" in this country than I'd realized, well, then maybe we're just going to get the president we deserve, in a bad way.
But I don't think so. I think there are a lot of smart people out there who have moved away from politics and elections. Well, go register to vote, why don't you? Cast your ballot, get involved, make a difference. That's what will get Barack Obama elected -- people smart enough to have gotten disillusioned checking back in. Because if one thing's true, it's this: John McCain and Sarah Palin represent the very sorts of politicians who turned people off in the first place.
My favorite sign at the anti-Palin rally in Anchorage? That's a picture I'll share:
It's the sign on the left, mocked up to look like the McCain/Palin signs we see now. Only, doesn't that just sum them up? He's reckless and she's inexperienced. So people who just have to vote against Barack Obama can do so, but I hope they have half a clue what they're voting for.
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