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  • Here's a thought-provoking FWD I just got -

    I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

    * If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're
    "exotic; different."
    * Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American
    story.


    * If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
    * Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.


    * Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
    * Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well
    grounded.

    * If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the
    First black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration
    Drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional
    Lawprofessor, 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/sports person, 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 and
    next in line behind a man in his eighth decade.

    * 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 laywer 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 at least one DWI
    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 USA, your family is extremely admirable.

    OK, much clearer now.

  • #2
    It makes no sense whatsoever. None.

    But, you gotta remember, this is a country that elected one man over another because he was the guy they'd rather have a beer with.

    It truly does make me feel like I live in the Twilight Zone sometimes.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by maryellen
      But, you gotta remember, this is a country that elected one man over another because he was the guy they'd rather have a beer with.
      Where did you get this from? Was it an exit poll question I missed? I don't know anyone who would vote for president based on that. (Yes, I am one of those people who voted for GWB twice, but it was definitely not because I would rather have a beer with him over Gore or Kerry.)

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      • #4
        I'm really curious...

        why DID you pull the lever for GWB? And how do you think he is working out?

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        • #5
          Although it wasn't asked of me, I'll admit I voted for GWB both times, and if I had to do it over again, I'd do the same thing. I know he made alot of mistakes in office but still think we would be even worse off if kerry had been voted into office. My votes were more of a vote against whom he was running against rather than 100% confidence in GWB. I would never have voted for kerry in a million years...however, I wouldn't have been too upset if Gore had won in 2000 as he didn't make my stomach turn as much as kerry did.

          Also, why does it seem like it's more of a race between Obama and Palin as those are the two I'm always seeing compared. It's almost like McCain and Biden aren't even involved in the election, although I don't know if I've even seen Biden at all in the news one bit since he accepted the democrat VP nod.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Gangrel
            Although it wasn't asked of me, I'll admit I voted for GWB both times, and if I had to do it over again, I'd do the same thing. I know he made alot of mistakes in office but still think we would be even worse off if kerry had been voted into office. My votes were more of a vote against whom he was running against rather than 100% confidence in GWB. I would never have voted for kerry in a million years...however, I wouldn't have been too upset if Gore had won in 2000 as he didn't make my stomach turn as much as kerry did.

            Also, why does it seem like it's more of a race between Obama and Palin as those are the two I'm always seeing compared. It's almost like McCain and Biden aren't even involved in the election, although I don't know if I've even seen Biden at all in the news one bit since he accepted the democrat VP nod.
            Biden's been in the news with his release of 10 years worth of tax records. He's there. You just have to dig for him.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Hollie_B
              Biden's been in the news with his release of 10 years worth of tax records. He's there. You just have to dig for him.
              That's it?!?! Just his tax records??? Wow, that reinforces my decision on voting McCain then. Thanks!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Gangrel
                That's it?!?! Just his tax records??? Wow, that reinforces my decision on voting McCain then. Thanks!
                My pleasure. Definitely post and let me know when McCain/Palin release theirs.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Gangrel
                  Although it wasn't asked of me, I'll admit I voted for GWB both times, and if I had to do it over again, I'd do the same thing. I know he made alot of mistakes in office but still think we would be even worse off if kerry had been voted into office. My votes were more of a vote against whom he was running against rather than 100% confidence in GWB. I would never have voted for kerry in a million years...however, I wouldn't have been too upset if Gore had won in 2000 as he didn't make my stomach turn as much as kerry did.
                  Ditto. That's my answer exactly. Neither Gore nor Kerry were an option- simple as that. I'm not thrilled with GWB's presidency, but I'm still glad we didn't have a President Kerry.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Hollie_B
                    My pleasure. Definitely post and let me know when McCain/Palin release theirs.
                    Will do. Please let me know when Obama/Biden come up with legitimate policies and realistic ways to pay for them without increasing taxation on everyone (not the lies he is spilling about only on the top 5%)

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                    • #11
                      This is EXCELLENT!!! Thanks so much for posting it. I've already copied and pasted it and sent it off to my whole distribution list!!!

                      A breath of Fresh Air at last! Barack and Michele are exactly the role models I want for my kids.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Gangrel
                        That's it?!?! Just his tax records??? Wow, that reinforces my decision on voting McCain then. Thanks!
                        That makes no sense. It's not Palin doing anything worthwhile that is putting her in the news, it's just the hubbub around her...

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Tonia1
                          Ditto. That's my answer exactly. Neither Gore nor Kerry were an option- simple as that. I'm not thrilled with GWB's presidency, but I'm still glad we didn't have a President Kerry.
                          Why? What exactly could he have done that could have possibly made things *worse?*

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by maryellen
                            Why? What exactly could he have done that could have possibly made things *worse?*
                            This is what I fiind so confusing. First, you think this is as bad as it gets? I don't think so. People have the audacity to compare our economy now to that of the great depression. That seems awfully ignorant and egotistical (not saying you have made that comparison, I've just seen it made.)

                            Things could be much worse than they are now. The fact is, from my small perspective, life is the same as it ever was. I'm no worse off now than I've ever been. Nobody in my extended family is any worse off than they've ever been. This includes the families of 11 siblings/stepsiblings/inlawsiblings/inlawstepsiblings, living in almost as many different states and in all parts of the country will all education level from HS graduate on up to graduate degrees. I'm so safer or less safe now than I've ever been. The prospects for my children are no better or no more bleak than they've ever been. I just don't get the 'utter failure' talk that is spread around like jelly on toast.

                            I hear that Bush has been a complete failure on basically every level. I believe that the people who keep repeating it mostly believe it. But to me it sounds like something that's true simply because its been repeated so often.

                            The fact is, if Bush's complete failure is really true, then some blame goes to the democratic party of offering Kerry as their best choice. There were many people who might have voted against GWB if they'd had a better option than Kerry.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by freddy

                              I hear that Bush has been a complete failure on basically every level. I believe that the people who keep repeating it mostly believe it. But to me it sounds like something that's true simply because its been repeated so often.

                              The fact is, if Bush's complete failure is really true, then some blame goes to the democratic party of offering Kerry as their best choice. There were many people who might have voted against GWB if they'd had a better option than Kerry.
                              Well, at the risk of sounding dramatic, I don't think life is better for the thousands of soldiers who have died in Iraq, or their families. And it's my belief that Kerry would have gotten them out of there by now. That's enough for me to say Bush has been a failure, but there's more.

                              How about the tremendous deficit Bush's war has created? That's not going away any time soon and it is going to take money away from things that could have been done. Good things.

                              How about all the people who lived in Louisiana and who suffered more than they needed to because the Bush administration bungled its response to Katrina? Life could be better for them.

                              I thought Bush was a disaster before the election of 2004, and all the things I worried would happen... did. Am I worse off than I was four or eight years ago? Yes. Financially and in terms of my feelings about where this country is right now, I am worse off.

                              So, honestly, I don't know what the heck people were so worried about with Kerry. What exactly was the problem with him that he wouldn't have been better than Bush?

                              It's hard to say how much better things could have been with Kerry as president, because we never got a chance to see what he could do. I am sure that at least on several fronts, things would be much different than they are now for many people.

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