Sorting through the confusion

hart62

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Just got this e-mail, thought NS should read it. Sorry for the fucked up formatting.

We're all 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 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 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 fewer than 7,000 people,



20 months as the governor of a state with

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 wife and married the heiress the next

month, you're a good



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...Never mind that you & First

Dude eloped because of your



own out-of-wedlock pregnancy...







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 you're 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.

 
Most of that is true, however it is all so misleading, I don't like shit like that from either side, it doesn't help anyone, it's just some liberal bullshit spam email. It is only going to make the conservatives more pissed, and it will make the liberals, well.....more fanatic.

In any case I hate Palin, and I will be voting for Obama. Mccain is a very respectable guy, no doubt, I would honestly like to meet him, but I will not be voting for him in the upcoming election, due to his policies, and his ideas on how the US should be run.
 
thought this was interesting too... but just on a smaller, more laughable scale about reporting...

A recurring theme in the old "Star Trek" series was the machine run amok. An intelligent computer, entrusted with some important task, would conclude that human beings were imperfect because they do not always act logically. Because humans are imperfect, the computer would reason, they must be destroyed. (This seems like a bit of a leap, but maybe it made sense in the '60s.)Invariably, Captain Kirk and the other protagonists would save mankind by using illogic to fight the computer. They would feed the computer some paradox or logically incoherent statement, such as "Everything I say is a lie," which would overload the computer's logic circuits and destroy it.Last week John McCain's campaign put out an ad criticizing Barack Obama for his ties to Franklin Raines, former CEO of Fannie Mae. The ad said that Obama relies on Raines "for 'advice on mortgage and housing policy.' " The Washington Post claims that the McCain ad is "a stretch":So what evidence does the McCain campaign have for the supposed Obama-Raines connection? It is pretty flimsy, but it is not made up completely out of whole cloth. McCain spokesman Brian Rogers points to three items in the Washington Post in July and August. It turns out that the three items (including an editorial) all rely on the same single conversation, between Raines and a Washington Post business reporter, Anita Huslin, who wrote a profile of the discredited Fannie Mae boss that appeared July 16. The profile reported that Raines, who retired from Fannie Mae four years ago, had "taken calls from Barack Obama's presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters."So the Washington Post is saying you can't believe McCain's ad because it is based on reporting in . . . the Washington Post. The Washington Post is not a reliable source of information, according to the Washington Post.But if the Washington Post is not a reliable source of information, how can we believe the Washington Post when it says it's not a reliable source of information? But if we don't believe the Washington Post when it says it's not a reliable source of information, then we must believe the Washington Post is a reliable source of information, in which case how can we believe the Washington Post is not a reliable source of information. But if . . .You get the picture. Clearly this is part of a sinister plot by the Obama-coddling mainstream media to induce madness in all Americans who have the capacity for logical thought, rendering them unable to vote and ensuring the election is decided by Obama backers who act totally on emotion.Then again, it may not work. After all, "Star Trek" was only a TV show.
 
so what you're trying to say is, you're voting for Obama. no need to start an argument over it.
 
Sorry if this came across as a political message, I just thought it was pretty funny. And yes, I'm voting for Barack, but I realize he is a sneaky douche, like all other politicians. But, he is just a little bit less of a douche than McCain.
 
Obama is definitely not a "sneaky douche," the people who write these types of things are.

I actually found it contained good stuff, it just came off slamming the republican party....although damn they deserve it with this Palin business.
 
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