[Rhodes22-list] food for thought

[Herb Parsons]

Pete!!! You read my message!!! Does that mean you lied when you said 
they were going to be deleted, or you changed your mind?

Please keep in mind, my quote had a context. We were talking about 
qualifications for office.

I don't know that Barak has been faithful to his wife. Nor do you. I do 
know that he's been married to her for years, but Bill was married to 
Hillary for longer, so what? Being married does not indicate fidelity, 
and being divorced does not indicate infidelity.

I'm married to my second wife. I was not unfaithful to my first wife, 
nor to my second wife. Bill's been married only once, but I don't think 
he can make the fidelity claim.

Would you like to try another one? If you really do want discussion, 
please feel free. Keep in mind though the following:

1) I'm talking about qualifications for President. Jimmy Carter was 
probably one of the most devout Christian presidents I know of, but he 
was a lousy one.

2) I'm not much a fan of McCain to begin with. However, I'll vote for an 
unfaithful, lying, scheming, piece of slime that believes in the Free 
Market and individual achievement before I'll vote for a Jimmy Carter 
type that's a socialist.

Oh, and the unfaithful, lying, scheming piece of slime could even be 
black, it wouldn't bother me.





petelargo wrote:
> "None of the "positive" attributes about Barak are anything I much care
> about." 
>
> Oh really? How sad to hear that you no long care much about fidelity to your
> wife, achievement in education, and helping your community. I truly will
> pray for you.
>
>
>
> hparsons wrote:
>   
>> 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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