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 and 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 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.
You could cut half of that out and it sounds like a “you might be a Republican” or “you might be a Redneck” skit.
I tell ya, I’ve been impressed by the absolute positive BS spin that McCain’s campaign has been able to put on things. Had Barack Obama been white and named “Barry Owens” this race wouldn’t even be close. He’d have a 60-40 lead in the polls and it’d be an electoral landslide come November 4th. It may still end up that way if Barack can get them focused back on the actual issues and problems our nation faces.
Is this all accurate, or is it about like a Michael Moore movie, where only … 2/3 is true? 🙂
Wow. I agree with the other poster about the spin. It’s diabolical, frankly. And the debate and discussion are simply not happening.
Actually, Ken, there is documentation for all of it.
From the Arizona Republic, here is news of McCain’s affair…
“McCain needed a divorce from Carol, his wife of 14 years from whom he was separated. After McCain’s dramatic homecoming from Vietnam, the couple grew apart. Their marriage began disintegrating while McCain was stationed in Jacksonville. McCain has admitted to having extramarital affairs.”
There is also AP Wire documentation about Palin’s attending 5 colleges in 6 years, and her husband’s DWI.
I was partly joking and partly cautious. However, I’ve been reading a book for my dissertation: “What Happened to the Southern Baptist Convention”, and, after reading about Paul Pressler’s antics, nothing should seem unbelievable anymore. Amazing and painful stuff.
Your blog post pretty much sums up what we face.
I tend to disagree, but I guess it is where you stand as to how you view your position.
Entertaining to read though.
Maybe Hannity, Boortz, or Limbaugh could help with these questions?
The dreaded double comment!
You know Tom. I gave this some thought since my original post.
You are more correct than most republicans would like to admit, myself included. I do want to interject that the media isn’t helping the situation. When I watch ANY of the news channels, there is that underlying bias. I feel like I need a shower after the 6:00 news.
What you name your kids, my neighbors opinion of how exotic your home state is, what color you or your parents are, really don’t concern me as much as…your plans to address the economy, health care, and energy.
In retrospect, yes I agree with some of your original posting. Not that it matters but your post caused me to renew my awareness of trying to focus more on the issues.
I voluntarily stand corrected…in some parts 🙂
-Ron
Thanks for the reconsideration, Ron. I think that’s what has bothered me most about this whole election cycle. It needs to get down to real issues and leave this side business alone.
I actually like McCain a lot – as a senator. He’s been willing to cross party lines and work for compromises that actually accomplish something. “Compromise” is not a dirty word, and willingness to adjust your agenda for the common good is necessary.
Unfortunately, as a candidate McCain has tried to pander to the far right of his party, and his selection of Palin as a running mate is a prime example.
Oh well, I guess we’ll see what happens in November. Now you see why I try to stay away from political topics in this blog!
I guess I just don’t see the bias myself. When i think of how Senator Obama has been treated at times, particularly the harping on Jeremiah Wright (in a way that did NOT help understanding of why Wright is as he is), and I saw stories on McCain accompanying every story on Obama (as an example, when Obama was abroad), bias rings hollow to me.
An interesting thing about Mrs. Palin’s appointments in Alaska: did you hear who she appointed as Secretary of Agriculture? And WHY? A real estate person who “loves cows” and went to school with Mrs. Palin. Interesting choice. 🙂