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LotusSong -> RE: Qualified to lead? (9/16/2008 5:00:17 PM)
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
Since John McCain in his infinite wisdom had decided to put forward Gov.Palin has his #2 on the Republican ticket I was curious how many here believe she is qualified to be President on day one.Please none of the usual "more than Obama is"replies....Obama was chosen by the nominating process...Palin is McCain selection pure and simple.it will be interesting to see how many believe this heretofore unknown is Presidential material(I know this thread is a little late,but I have hd some "awaiting approval"problems and it is what it is)
I got this in my mail today... musing on this very question....
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this
straight.....
If you grow up in Hawaii, are raised by your grandparents,
you're "exotic" and "different." If
you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you are the
quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic
Muslim. If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track,
you're a maverick.
If you graduate from Harvard law School, you are
unstable.·If you attend five different small colleges
before graduating, you're well grounded.
If you spend three years as a community organizer, become
the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, create a
voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters,
spend twelve years as a constitutional law professor, spend
eight years as a state senator representing a district with
more than 750,000 people, become chairman of your state
senate's Health and Human Services Committee, spend four
years in the United States Senate representing a state of
thirteen million people while sponsoring 131 bills and
serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment, Public Works
and Veterans Affairs committees, you don't have any real
leadership experience.
If your total resume consists of local weatherman, four
years on the city council and six years as the mayor of a
town with fewer than 7,000 people, twenty 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 nineteen
years while raising two daughters, all within protestant
churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife (with a rich heiress) and
subsequently left your disfigured wife and married the
heiress the following 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," and dismiss the instruction of all other sex
education options in your state's school system, and
then your unwed, teenage daughter becomes 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, who 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,"
possesses at least one DWI conviction and no college
education, didn't register to vote until age 25 and was
once a member of a group advocating the secession of Alaska
from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now.
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