[Rhodes22-list] food for thought

[Herb Parsons]

The problem with those idiotic questions Brad, is the "asker" is asking 
the worst about one candidate, and the best of another.

None of the "positive" attributes about Barak are anything I much care 
about. Reality is, most of them are not what the Democrats care about, 
at least, not until Barak came on the scene. Is anyone going to sit 
there with a straight face and say that "family values", or the way one 
treats their wife is REALLY an important issue for the Dems???

Or, maybe the party that fought against freeing the slaves thinks it's 
only important for black men to be faithful...


Brad Haslett wrote:
> Peter,
>
> You wrote "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.'
>
> Give me a freaking break!  I personally take offense to all this
> "racism" bullshit!  This is PC run amok. There's lots to criticize and
> not like about McCain. I still don't particularly like the guy even
> though I'm voting for him. But, I dislike Obama ten times worse and
> would whether he was red, or yellow, black or white.
>
> Give this racism crap a rest.
>
> Brad
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>
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> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Peter Thorn <pthorn at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>   
>> WHAT IF
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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 longer
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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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