[Rhodes22-list] Politics - more republican hypocrisy

[Michael D. Weisner]

Herb,

I get little pleasure from the misinformation of knowledgeable individuals 
on either side.  It seems to be destructive.

I know, you're entitled to your opinion but, why is it so much fun to watch?

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY


From: "Herb Parsons" <hparsons at parsonsys.com>Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 
2008 12:08 PM
> So Pete, is that the lemonaide flavored kool-aide?
>
> Exotic and different is a valid description.
> What a person eats has nothing to do with being a "quintessential
> American story", what they do, does.
>
> Being a radical, unpatriotic, 'secret' anything has nothing to do with a
> person's name. It has to do with what they do, and what motivates their
> actions.
> Naming your kids has nothing to do with whether or not your a maverick.
>
> Where you graduated from has nothing to do with stability.
> Being well-grounded in your 40's is hardly reflected by what you did in
> your 20's.
>
> I think you see the trend here.
>
> New phrase for the day - non sequitur
>
> Palin's really got you and yours worried, huh? It's really fun to watch.
>
> petelargo wrote:
>> If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic,
>> different."
>> Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.
>>
>> If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic 'secret' Muslim.
>> Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.
>>
>> Graduate from Harvard law School and be President of the Law Review, and 
>> you
>> are unstable.
>> Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well 
>> grounded.
>>
>> If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, create a voter 
>> registration
>> drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a 
>> Constitutional
>> Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district 
>> with
>> over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and 
>> Human
>> Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate 
>> representing a
>> state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the
>> Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs
>> committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
>> If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council 
>> and
>> 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as 
>> the
>> governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to
>> become the country's second highest ranking executive.
>>
>> If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2
>> daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
>> If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your
>> disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a 
>> Christian.
>>
>> If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the
>> proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. If, 
>> while
>> governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other  option 
>> in
>> sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen 
>> daughter
>> ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
>>
>> If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a
>> prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city 
>> community,
>> then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent
>> America's.
>> If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with a DUI conviction and no
>> college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was 
>> a
>> member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the U.S., 
>> your
>> family is extremely admirable.
>>
>>
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