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tony
09-11-2008, 09:16 AM
Just posting.. no affiliation to the email and not representing any of my personal feelings, just anxious to see the responses. At least read the whole thing, we do it when you post up the McCain chain emails.


Subject: The Double Standard of American Politics


If a black Democratic presidential candidate was an affirmative action

selection (akin to the legacy selection for McCain) at the Naval Academy

and graduated 894 out of 899, Fox News <http://www.foxnews.com/> and

the conservative right would push this story as the basis for his

disqualification for the nation's highest office. The rest of the media

would then be forced to report on it, giving the story wide exposure.



If a white Republican presidential candidate graduated magna cum laude

from Harvard, he would be celebrated as an intellectual giant ready to

lead the country in bold new directions. But since we are talking Obama

here, his education fits into the "uppity" and presumptuous

narrative.



If you're a Harvard and Princeton-educated black woman married for years

before having your first child, Fox labels you a "Baby Mama."



If you are a white woman who eloped and had a baby eight months later,

you are Sarah Palin



If you have studied international affairs for several decades, you're

inexperienced at foreign affairs



If you live in a state that is geographically near a foreign country,

you have foreign policy expertise



If you both write and present your own words, you just give good

speeches.

If you read someone else's words from the telepromptera superstar is

born.



If you are Obama, your greatness must be measured by what you've done

and its NEVER enough, NOT by any of the profound speeches you wrote

yourself, or the repeated grillings you've taken in the press.



If you are Palin, your greatness is measured by just one speech, written

by Bush IIs speechwriter, and you will not take any questions from the

press.



If you attend two of the top ivy leagues schools in the country, you are

surprisingly articulate. If it takes you several colleges to graduate

and you deliver a speech with the phonetic new-clear on the

teleprompter, you're a poised and eloquent speaker.



If your staff is so dumb they mix up Walter Reed Middle School for

Walter Reed Medical Center in your conventions big night, its because

you wanted to focus on education & it would have been political to use

the soldiers in that format.



If Obama had done that, he would be eviscerated for not knowing the

difference between the two, hating the troops/America & would be

dangerously unqualified to be CinC.



If your a liberal mayor and you ask for government financing, your a

fan of big, tax and spend, corrupt government.



If you're a conservative mayor and wind up on John McCain's worst pork

list in 2001, you are disgusted that small towns like yours are

dependent on earmarks, even if your town had no earmarks before you

became mayor.



A white woman talkin' tough is an advocate of women's rights, a black

woman is angry and bitter. A white man talkin' tough is a straight

shooter and a conservative, a black man is a angry gangsta rapper.



If you're a GOPer you naturally wouldn't see what the problem with any

of this was, even if you slept for 20 years on a dictionary opened to

the word hypocrisy.



If you're a Republican and you talk to America 's enemies, its

diplomacy.



If you're a Democrat and you talk to America 's enemies, its

appeasement.



If you're a Republican, you swear Jesus is a registered member of your

party.



If you're a Democrat, you appreciate that Jesus was a community

organizer.





If you're a Republican and you wind up on the cover of People magazine,

it's because you're a regular American.



If you're a Democrat and you wind up on the cover of People magazine,

its because you're a celebrity.





If you're a black Democratic man who can fill a stadium with 18,000

people (or worse, a German atrium with 200,000), you're a vapid

celebrity. If you're a white Republican woman who can get a room full of

fire breathing evangelical right wingers to holler, you're a star





If you are a Democrat, the days are counted down since the last time you

have been to Iraq .



If you are a Republican, you have all the foreign policy experience you

need because your state is close to Russia .



If you're a black woman, with advanced academic degrees, and you have

children while married, you're a baby mama



If you're a white woman who barely graduated from college, and you get

knocked up and then get married after you're pregnant, you're a

"Super

Mom"



If you are black and your daughter is pregnant, unmarried and has an

uninvolved baby daddy, you are a statistic, but if you're a white and

your daughters baby's daddy has an explicit MY Space page where, in

between four-letter words, he exclaims "he don't want no kids,"

you get

to run for Veep.



If you're a black presidential candidate that has wide appeal and the

ability to motivate over two million Americans to re-engage in the

political process you're an egomaniac with a messiah complex seeking the

spotlight.



However, if you're a right wing conservative - you're applauded for

your

likeability and called a unifier for the Republican base



If you're white, win a beauty contest, attended 5-6 colleges before

finally graduating, join the PTA, are voted to be mayor by 1000 people,

govern a sparsely populated state for a almost two years now, and

randomly get chosen at the last minute to be VP, you've lived the

American dream, she's every American.



But if you're black, raised by a single mother, lived on food stamps,

help the community, get into Harvard, become the first black editor of

the Harvard Law Review, build a great campaign organization from

scratch, and are voted to be the presidential nominee by millions of

people, you are just uppity.



If you are a democratic candidate and people around you complain about

the MSM vitriole toward you, you're a whiner.



If you are a republican candidate and you wont answer the questions the

MSM attempts to ask about your qualifications for the second highest

office in the land, you're being victimized.



If you are a white republican mom with a special-needs baby, you are

suddenly the advocate of all special needs families in the US .



If you are an Alaskan democrat mom with a special-needs baby, you just

saw state funding cut for programs like special-ed. You're "on your

own."



If you are a black democrat homeowner that was preyed upon by mortgage

companies and your house is in foreclosure, you made bad choices and

don't deserve a house.



If you an older white republican who can't keep track of how many houses

he has, then he deserves another one.

alpine_aw11
09-11-2008, 09:33 AM
Gotta love political bias.

twinj
09-11-2008, 07:03 PM
To bad that email is reality. Its funny how sh!t get's done so shady. It also funny how Palin was a "good pick" ,and didn't anyone know sh!t about her. When it came to Obama he has to about Lasso the fukin moon for someone to even comtemplate him getting demo-nomination.

IndianStig
09-11-2008, 08:03 PM
double standard doesn't stop in politics, trust me.

0p7!mu5
09-11-2008, 08:04 PM
good point its like mccain kinda picked her because obama didnt pick hillary or at least was thinking he was and wasnt tryin to look sexist..

man
09-12-2008, 10:58 AM
Holy **** the bias is almost blinding... any conservative could say the exact same damn thing

open your eyes people, i thought liberals were supposed to be the open-minded ones...

blaknoize
09-12-2008, 07:00 PM
As if no one could tell... yall need to be more informed of the world around u and the people whom control u. Thats sad...