[Rhodes22-list] food for thought

[Herb Parsons]

Wow, sorry, I missed the others

No, achievement in education is not important to me at all in a 
presidential candidate. The fact that someone can get good grades says 
little about their character or their common sense. Again, Bill Clinton 
is a prime example

No, "helping your community" doesn't fall into the equation. Being a 
paid by the government community organizer is a far cry from "helping 
your community". The facts belie the notion that he helped the community.

Who will you pray to? You've pretty strongly indicated those that 
believe in God are "religious kooks", and I don't think your prayers to 
yourself, the the great karma of the universe, or even the great moral 
compass that should guide us all but needs adjustments on both will 
really do much for me, so I don't need those prayers.


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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