The Invisibleness of Racism

Subject: What If You Reversed Information about Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin--Something to Contemplate

What if....

Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?.....think about it.

Would the country's collective point of view be different?

Ponder the following:

What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and 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 a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?

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 not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?
(The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)

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? And was never given a command position.

What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?

What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

You could easily add to this list. 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.

Educational Background:

Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.

Obama & Biden's Rescue Plan for the Middle-Class

Here it is in full detail how Obama and Biden will turn the current economic disaster around. It's a pretty impressive plan.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Rescue Plan for the Middle Class - Upload a Document to Scribd

McCain- it's your turn, where is your plan?

Vice Presidential Debate

What did you think of last night's VP debate? Overall I thought both candidates spoke well and came off well-informed. Although, Biden appeared much more informed on the issues than Palin. While I thought Palin spoke a lot better than her previous interviews, she still dodged the questions directly and did not come across as fully knowledgeable. Biden, on the other hand, was very well-informed. He is obviously very experienced and in-the-know. Palin dodged all specifics and all I really got was that she and McCain are "Mavericks". How these "Mavericks" are going to change the economy around, get us out of this war, and deal with other countries has yet to be answered. Although both fudged a bit on their "facts", overall the debate was well thought-out, poised, and a bit on the boring side. But that's okay, the real focus should be on the President, right?