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I got this in an email today --
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 spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President 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, Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience. If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer 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 your 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. |
Anonymous
| Yikes - reading this makes me think......I am one of those middle of the road people - but you cannot deny that this kinda spells it out. |
Anonymous
Really? See, I'm not going to vote for either candidate based on what they ate growing up, what the named their kids, what their spouses do/don't do, or even their religion. I'm also not going to compare the top of one ticket with the bottom of another. The only relevant piece in there is the paragraph comparing experience. But I repeat: top of ticket vs bottom of ticket. |
Anonymous
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To the previous poster, given McCain's age and health don't you think the bottom of the ticket should be a consideration? |
Anonymous
Sure, I think it should be a consideration. But 90% of what I see (at least on this board) is Palin vs. Obama. Any VP could wind up as President at any point during the term. You just never know. And to my knowledge, there is nothing wrong with McCain's health. I realize he has had melanoma. But I have 30 year old friends who have had melanoma and don't plan on dying any time soon. If I recall, Biden has had some major health scares himself. I personally think Sarah Palin has potential. I certainly wouldn't vote for her to be president right now. But I'm just totally fed up with all of the silliness going on in this forum. WTF cares if she has a tanning booth (or Gore has a house boat)? Like I said, the paragraph about experience is relevant. But yet there is no mention of McCain's experience. Gee, I wonder why that wasn't included in the comparison? |
Anonymous
Let's be realistic. We've heard about the numbers of people attending the rallies and why they are going. If McC & P are elected, we know who people will be voting for. She is the top of the ticket. |
Anonymous
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The only experience I need to know regarding McCain is that he supported Bush almost 100% of the time when Bush had an opinion about a specific bill. With those politics my choice is CLEAR. We don't need another 4 years of Republican politics, just look at the state of our nation now.
<<According to a CQ analysis of Senate votes on issues President Bush expressed “an explicit, stated opinion,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) voted with President Bush 100 percent of the time in 2008 and 95 percent of the time in 2007. >> The reason Sarah Palin is getting so much discussion (I think) is because people are shocked that seemingly intelligent people think she is a good choice and one to support for Vice President. What about her makes people want to vote for McCain? I don't get it! |
Anonymous
| Is Obama running against McCain or Palin? Really, these attacks against Palin are just embarrassing. |
Anonymous
No, clearly the only experience you need to know is that he was in a North Vietnamese prison camp for years! Stephen Colbert had a great piece showing how when John McCain is criticized he always comes back with the fact that he was a POW. In which case (as Stewart or Colbert pointed out, I forget which), our next great leader is probably stuck right now in Guantanamo! I'm getting so tired of McCain and company using this to deflect criticism. I'd love to see one in the press have the gonads to confront him on it. |
Anonymous
| The discussion is valid regarding Palin because so many folks are voting for McSame because he chose her as his running mate. WHY?? |
Anonymous
PP regarding McCain experience wants to make it clear that I am NOT voting for McCain. His support of Bush is not a positive in my mind. OBAMA! And if I hear one more time about his POW experience I am going to vomit. Being a POW makes you a war hero, NOT qualified to be the President of the United States. |
Anonymous
Oh I could tell you weren't going to vote for him! No worries! Just at that moment wanted to rant about the POW thing! 
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Anonymous
No, discussion on the ISSUES is valid. That's not what this post (or many of the others) was about. I had always said that of the republican candidates, McCain would be the only one I'd consider voting for. But I assumed I'd just stick with the Dems. Enter Palin and all the flurry, and it made me actually think about my choice. I've spent a lot of time over the past two weeks comparing McCain's plans and Obama's plans, rather than just blindly voting Dem the way I have in the past. So I guess if not for Palin, I might have never given McCain the consideration I have recently. But if I end up voting for McCain (which is where I'm leaning, but reserving final judgment until after I watch the debates) it will be a vote despite Palin's inexperience, not a vote because he chose Palin. And if I vote for Obama, that too will be a vote despite his inexperience. So, I suppose I should thank all of those who made ridiculous attacks on Palin's personal life; if not for those I probably wouldn't have done the research I have to make a more informed decision. You may not agree with the decision, but I wonder how many people have dug deeper than the headlines; I hadn't. |
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I applaud you for making this effort, regardless of your ultimate decision. |
Anonymous
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Why is it that we aren't allowed to question Palin's personal life, but other candidates personal lives are up for debate and discussion?
As a woman I find it offensive that people are saying we are only bringing up her family life because she is a woman. BS! Obama's wife has been attacked by the Republicans, Edwards affair was dragged into the media spotlight, but we aren't allowed to question the values of a candidate who touts abstinence education as the way to go and then has a pregnant unwed teenage daughter, who got her education by attending 5 schools in 6 years? I think these are valid points of discussion for someone who could become President. |