[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Comparisons

[Herb Parsons]

The one "correction" I'd recommend -

I wish everyone that writes about Obama being a "community organizer" 
would add the important descriptive term "a government paid community 
organizer"

It's not as if he was doing some kind of volunteer work.

pdgrand at nospam.wmis.net wrote:
> Do you do your own thinking?
>
> Listening to the mainstream media these last few days I've learned a few
> things about the GOP's VP nominee but also had to learn a few things on my
> own. To wit:
>
>
>
> 1. From the media I learned Sarah Palin's husband has a DUI conviction
> from 22 years ago. On my own I learned that Ted Kennedy (hero of the
> tribute at the DNC) was drunk while driving a car off a bridge in
> Chappaquiddick. That same crash killed a young campaign volunteer with
> whom he was having an affair. Oh, and that woman was pregnant with his
> child.
>
> * Mr. Palin's (who is not running for office) DUI came a mere 4 years
> after Barack Obama (who is running for president) stopped using cocaine
> and marijuana (by his own admission in his autobiography).
>
> Shocking - it's OK for the presidential candidate to use drugs or the
> party patriarch to kill someone while driving drunk yet the husband of a
> VP candidate should be demonized for something done 22 years ago.
>
>
>
> 2. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant.
>
> * On my own I learned that Joe Biden's (the other VP candidate) son was
> paid a large amount of money as a consultant to credit card company MBNA.
> That same company had business before Senator Joe Biden concerning
> regulation of consumer credit practices. After the company paid a hefty
> sum to Mr. Biden's son, he voted in favor of legislation to help that
> company.
>
> * That same son, Hunter, is also engaged in a legal investigation and suit
> for defrauding a former business partner.
>
> Shocking - it's a crime for the Republican VP candidate to have a child
> who's pregnant even though it's irrelevant to how she performs her job.
> It's ok, however, for the Democrat VP candidate, while a senator, to vote
> in favor of a company who paid his son over a quarter of a million
> dollars.
>
>
>
> 3. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin should be considered
> 'selfish' for agreeing to run for VP knowing about her daughter's
> condition. Knowing that her public role would bring extra scrutiny on the
> family is selfish and she should have declined to protect her child
> (actually heard this on ABC).
>
> Strange - the same people who said Sarah is selfish for running for VP did
> not seem to care about any impact on Chelsea when Bill Clinton had his
> dalliance with Monica Lewinsky. That was a private, personal matter you
> see.
>
>
>
> 4. From the media I have learned to be 'concerned' that Sarah Palin
> probably won't be able to manage her family and do an effective job of
> being VP at the same time.
>
> Funny - I never heard anything about Hillary's ability to support Chelsea
> while re-doing healthcare or any of the other feminist icons who say you
> can balance work and family. They also never mention that Barack will have
> to balance time with his children while meeting with heads of rogue
> nations.
>
> 5. From the media I have learned that Sarah Palin is 'too
> inexperienced' to be a heartbeat-away from the presidency.
>
> * Apparently taking on corruption in your own party and running a state
> that's the same size people-wise as Delaware (hint hint: that's where Joe
> Biden is from) is not really experience.
>
> * However, time spent as a 'community organizer' and less than 180 days in
> the U.S. Senate where you've authored no significant legislation is just
> the type of 'change' we're looking for from the top of the ticket.
>
> Funny - inexperience at the top of the ticket is a mantra for 'change' and
> 'hope' while strong practical everyday experience as the #2 is cause for
> concern.
>
>
>
> 6. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin's husband once got a ticket
> for fishing without a license.
>
> * I haven't heard much about the fact that if he were still a practicing
> attorney, the VP candidate Joe Biden could be dis-barred for plagiarism,
> not once but multiple times.
>
> It's ok to break the rules if you're a Democrat candidate, but not Ok if
> you are the spouse of a Republican candidate.
>
>
>
> 7. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin doesn't know much about Iraq;
> in fact we wonder if she even knows where it is.
>
> * Sarah's son volunteered into the US military and is now deployed in
> Iraq. I guess that doesn't count.
>
> Sarah has spent more time with troops in Iraq (as commander of the Alaska
> National Guard she visited Iraq last year) than Obama has even while
> running for president. In fact, when Sarah went to Iraq she spent
> time with the troops. When Obama went there, he skipped a base visit to
> instead go work out at the Ritz Carlton.
>
>
>
> 8. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin is a 'lightweight' and she
> better be a 'quick study' to keep up with this team.
>
> Funny, nobody is talking about how, after Barack Obama had 'visited 57
> states' according to him he only had '5 more to go' or endless other
> stupid gaffes that expose who he really is.
>
>
>
> 9. From the media I have learned that (gasp!), Sarah Palin's husband was
> once a registered member of a 3rd party that favored states' rights (man,
> this is really bad stuff).
>
> * That same media has been silent to the story that when Barack Obama
> announced his first senate run, he did so in the home of William Ayers.
> Mr. Ayers is an un-repentant terrorist convicted for bombing the pentagon.
> This same Mr. Ayers said on 9/11 that he and his group did not
> do enough to harm our military and he wished he had done more. During the
> same time as that comment, he was serving on a board with Barack
> Obama.
> All notes and information about their serving together is now locked up by
> the corrupt Chicago machine and reporter access to those records are being
> blocked by the Obama campaign.
>
> If we've had any doubts about the bias of the media, it's pretty clear now
> where they stand.
>
>
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