[Rhodes22-list] food for thought

[ben]

Golly Herb, where did that outburst come from?  I don't understand the anger
-- this is just an email list among people you will likely never meet and
never persuade.  Let's remember that this is for fun, hunh?

Obviously, we have a cleverly-crafted argument that contrasts the best
aspects of Obama with the worst of McCain and claims racism is the
difference.  A worthwhile endeavor to make you think, perhaps, but if you
ponder it for a minute or two, you will easily realize that if you list
McCain's positives and Obamas negatives on the list as well, then the
closeness of the race is easily explained.

You could have pointed that out and come across as the more intelligent one
here.  Your message was a discredit to you.

Ben S.

 




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[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Herb Parsons
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] food for thought

What a friggin' joke you are Pete. So, if those of us that don't buy 
into the bullshit argument below are racists?

Bull.

You're an idiot Pete. AND you're a racist. You keep bringing the color 
of the candidates up, but that's YOU and YOURS. I don't care what color 
Obama is, and your implications that I, and others like me, do is not 
only wrong, it's a lie, and thus, you're a liar.

Frankly, I would love to see Alan Keyes elected president, but I don't 
believe it's going to happen. When a black man doesn't drink the liberal 
kool-aid, he's suddenly an "uncle tom", or "no longer black", so he's 
discounted by bigots like yourself.

petelargo wrote:
> excellent post. racism is subtle. you have to be smart about racism and
> codify the message to 'he's not like us', 'he's not one of us', 'he's
> un-american', 'he's different', 'who is he really'.  
>
>
> Peter Thorn wrote:
>   
>> WHAT IF
>>
>>  
>>
>> What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
>>
>> What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating
>> class?
>>
>>  
>>
>> What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to?
>>
>> What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no
>> longer
>>
>>
>> measured up to his standards?
>>
>>  
>>
>> What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain 
>>
>> killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
>>
>> What if Cindy McCain graduated from Princeton?
>>
>>  
>>
>> What if Obama was one of the "Keating 5"?
>>
>> What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
>>
>>  
>>
>> If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election 
>>
>> numbers would be as close as they are?  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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> P.S. What if Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter? 
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
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