[Rhodes22-list] food for thought

[Bob-Leslie Fletcher]

Very insightful.... thanks for the perspective.

Bob Fletcher

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Subject: [Rhodes22-list] food for thought


> WHAT IF
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> What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
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> What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating 
> class?
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> What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to?
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> What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no 
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> measured up to his standards?
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> What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain
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> killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
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> What if Cindy McCain graduated from Princeton?
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> What if Obama was one of the "Keating 5"?
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> What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
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> If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election
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> numbers would be as close as they are?  This is what racism does. It 
> covers
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> up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and
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> emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
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> P.S. What if Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
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