DATE: 21 Oct. 2008
TO: My Political E-Mail List
SUBJECT: What if Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin were switched? Racism??
c/o a (free-thinking) friend ...
“Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin: What if things were switched around?
“Would the country’s collective point of view be different? Could racism be at play?
“Ponder the following:
- “What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
- “What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
- “What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
- “What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
- “What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after she had a severe disfiguring car accident?
- “What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
- “What if Michelle Obama was the wife who became addicted to pain killers?
- “What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
- “What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis a decade ago, which cost taxpayers over $100 billion)
- “What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
- “What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
- “What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
- “What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem and had physically assaulted another member of Congress?
- “What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?
- [What if Michelle Obama had been the member of a political party that advocated the secession of Illinois from the United States?]
“You could easily add to this list [I just did, the last one]. 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.”
Doug
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