The Reality: Obama Supporters Can't Elucidate Why

[Esther]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

Your own logic works against you.

You are saying you won't vote for Mac b/c of his VP pick and will vote for O b/c of his. Yet the very reasons you oppose Palin are the very same arguments against Obama. You undermine your own logic.

If Obama's lack of experience is not a reason to vote against him, how can you say it is a reason to vote against Mac b/c of Palin?

Does anyone else see the confused rationale here?

Yes I think they need to raise the voting age!

[Esther]

Originally Posted by SlowFade

I enjoyed this email that was shared in the general conversation area of the Fellowship Hall:

I'm a little confused.
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 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 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 and a heartbeat away from the presidency should a 72 year old man (who has had cancer 4 times) die.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful 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 law graduate 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", 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.

I would love to see if those names are among the living.

[OldTimey]

Originally Posted by Esther

Yes I think they need to raise the voting age!

Then they'd have to raise the age of those entering the armed forces.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by OldTimey

Then they'd have to raise the age of those entering the armed forces.

Are they getting to vote this time? I know that was an issue last time with the forces in Iraq. I sure hope they do!

[deacon blues]

Originally Posted by Esther

I would love to see if those names are among the living.

A very good question Esther!