I just got an email that my friend forwarded to me that he got from his mom. Now his mom is a conservative but the pick of Palin has her pissed and maybe voting Obama but after this email I think she definately is voting Obama. Read after the jump
This is the body of the email- go ahead and send it around of you want.
I'm 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 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 next in line behind a man in his eighth decade.
>
>
> * 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 then left your disfigured wife and married the heiress
> the next month, you're a true 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 graduate laywer 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.
> LET'S GET BACK TO THE REAL ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN!!
This email sums so much up for even the simplist of minds. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
http://www.realprogressives.net