Do I have this right...?
9/16/2008 - Bev Sykes
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 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.
* 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 graduate lawyer 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", 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.
23 Comments From Other Members
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| 9/15/2008 |
Sharon Salomon from Phoenix AZ wrote:
I love you! Thank you. I'm going to copy (with your permission!) and send to all my friends. Of course, the problem is that all my friends agree with us so it's not doing any good to send to my friends. But you've said it all so perfectly tha I have to share it. Is everyone else in a drugged stupor???? Can someone please build a fire under Obama? I'm praying (yes, praying!) that Biden wipes the floor with her.
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| 9/15/2008 |
Joyce Norman from Birmingham AL wrote:
The title of your blog, "Do I have this right..." , Well, you have it exactly right and so very well put! I've sent your blog to many people because you say it better than most of the writers in the big newspapers. Good, original format! Congratulations!
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| 9/15/2008 |
Suzanne Caplan from PA wrote:
You forgot a few things but you might have gone on forever. This was well done!
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| 9/15/2008 |
Sue Ann Crockett from Ferndale WA wrote:
Very well done! Wonder how this blog would read (and how many kudos it would reap) if it had been written from a conservative perspective? Just wondering..
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| 9/15/2008 |
Michele Moore from New Port Richey FL wrote:
I feel a little like a member of the chess club sneaking into the locker room where the jocks are talking about how they want to beat up the nerds! I do hope that as intelligent, articulate women, we can keep the rhetoric from becoming hurtful and alienating those who may have opposing views. I'd also like to think that this forum is different, in that we can acknowledge the strengths and weaknesses of both parties and their representatives, rather than be like the rest of the pundits and talking heads who consider it failure or weakness to say anything positive about the "other guys/gals."
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| 9/16/2008 |
Lia Hadley from Luebeck SH wrote:
Well put. It boggles the mind, doesn't it? Here everyone outside of America thought the Americans had learned a hard lesson over the last eight years and were, at long last, choosing a candidate with the ability to comprehend the intellectual complexities of foreign politics and practice with a pragmatism needed to lead his country out of its economical and ecological difficulties... and then in one fell swoop, Palin. We're all shaking our heads as much as you guys are.
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| 9/16/2008 |
Bev Sykes from Davis CA wrote:
I'm not sure how this can be hurtful or alienating. Each paired statement is something that has been said about one or the other candidates. I think that a clearer picture begins to emerge when you put them side by side.
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| 9/16/2008 |
J Peak from Plymouth MI wrote:
It is hurtful and alienating because there are some half-truths there. That's what rhetoric is. Take a little bit of the truth and stretch it into something else. Not looking at all the facts of a statement and making it a grander statement. Making a decision based on our own hurts, wants, needs..rather than looking at what is the truth. I could just as easily write this column with a conservative slant and get them all rah-rahing about what I said. It may not be the truth, but it'll read just like this, only to the Right. Life is too serious to be sweeping things with this broad a brush.
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| 9/16/2008 |
Susan Terbay from Dayton OH wrote:
Actually I would love to read the conservative view. You are right J that life is too serious to be sweeping and sometimes I think the truth is so obvious that we don't see it because we don't want to see it.
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| 9/16/2008 |
J Peak from Plymouth MI wrote:
That's the problem. We think the truth is obvious. But it's like a blind man, feeling the tail of an elephant and "knowing" the truth that an elephant is therefore long, skinny, basically smooth but fuzzy on the end. We should never pick one kernel of information and call it the truth. I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, black or white, male or female. Doing that is what bigotry and prejudice is (which in this case have nothing to do with race). I thought we wanted to get rid of those concepts of thought?
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| 9/16/2008 |
Bev Sykes from Davis CA wrote:
I'm with Susan. I, too, would be happy to read a conservative view. I agree that there are many serious things going on in the world today. But I also feel it doesn't hurt to take a tongue-in-cheek look at them once in awhile. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying!
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| 9/16/2008 |
DB Metzger from NY wrote:
The only conservative worth reading in my humble opinion is David Brooks who can be found several times a week on the op-ed page of the dastardly NY Times. Willian Crystal was also given a slot there, but only to make conservaties look stupid. :)
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| 9/16/2008 |
Michele Moore from New Port Richey FL wrote:
Well...I would like to think you didn't mean that I am not worth reading, since I am a conservative. I'm confident there are others lurking around here, but (and I really don't want to nitpick) it is blanket statements like the one above that could chase them away. We know we have to really believe what we espouse because we are opposed on nearly every side. I think you would agree that the mainstream media adopts a liberal stance, which I can accept, unless I'm looking for genuine journalistic integrity (i.e. neutrality). Let's keep this place feeling safe for all sides to be heard. Please.
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| 9/16/2008 |
Jackie Reed from new york city ny wrote:
media "Liberal Slant" huh . Am I paranoid, or are those Fox Talking points.
ps. You are not stupid. Just misled. It happens to the best of us. :)
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| 9/16/2008 |
Michele Moore from New Port Richey FL wrote:
Wow...condescending! I don't watch Fox, actually. Usually NBC, CBS, and ABC in that order. Geeze...I'll stick with the more light-hearted blogs, rather than to be mislabeled or believed to be misled. Do you make these generalizations with all people groups, or just me? Thanks anyway... And you're right; I am NOT stupid.
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| 9/17/2008 |
J Peak from Plymouth MI wrote:
You know, Jackie, you seem to be afraid of anything that doesn't smell like your camp, and your response is to try to pigeonhole someone as a Fox watcher or Rush lover. Did you ever think that maybe those venues have an audience because there are more than 2 people out here that think along their lines? It doesn't take a genius when rationality is blatantly staring you in the face to make a decision as to what's right or wrong. One day you may look in the mirror and realize that you were misled. I watch Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC; don't listen to Rush. How do you possibly dismiss me now?
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| 9/17/2008 |
Suzanne Caplan from PA wrote:
Jackie needs to be more open mineded and less intent on filtering the data that proves her points. You go Michele & J. Hold her feet to the fire.
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| 9/17/2008 |
Jackie Reed from new york city ny wrote:
My camp my friends doesn't smell, excuse the language, but it sucks. It's weak and panders. On the other hand my friends, it's better then the right wing folks who have been in office the last 8 years, marching in lock step to the days talking points. If I sound pissed (closed minded) it's because I see the wreckage of the policies and don't treat them as some kind of horse race for those who don't enjoy horse racing, or watching the world wresting federation. This is serious stuff my friends and if you don't want 4 more years of it you better not trust anyone who calls you their friend.
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| 9/17/2008 |
Susan Terbay from Dayton OH wrote:
Believe it or not - I am much more middle of the road when it comes to politics - I vote for the person - my tendency is to be democratic in my choices but I have voted republican in the past. As a matter of fact at one time McCain was someone I really liked - I don't like him now - he's sold his soul in my thinking. Anyway, I believe more people are in the middle of their thinking process right now and I for one want both sides - and I want to hear from the republican and democrats, independents, etc. of this site - I need to be informed and this sites helps me more than any media outlet.
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| 9/17/2008 |
Janice Farringer from Chapel Hill NC wrote:
Bev, love your post. Hope you don't mind if I pass it along.
About the other comments, when did it become wrong to have a
strongly held opinion? In an election year you are for your
party/candidate and against the other party/candidate. There is no neutral
ground when you check off the box in the voting booth.
When it comes to election day, go vote.
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| 9/17/2008 |
Sue Ann Crockett from Ferndale WA wrote:
Hmm.. trying to make sense of the intelligent women who read this blog as a thing of beauty. Does the left have a corner on goodness? Words used concerning Senator Obama: brilliant; beautiful daughters; teaching responsibility; Harvard graduate for a wife; working for betterment. Words concerning Senator McCain/Governor Palin: small colleges; weather girl; cheating husband; unwed teen daughter; husband with no college education. Where are the superlatives you so graciously bestow upon the Dems? No wonder the liberals are cheering.. you're feeding them exactly what they want--rhetoric.
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| 9/18/2008 |
Jackie Reed from new york city ny wrote:
Quoting R.D. Levno a retired Principal. "She's a child, inexperienced and simplistic. It's taking us back to junior high school. She's one of the popular girls, but one of the mean girls. She is seductive, but she is invented.
Obama didn't really need to be invented. He didn't have to go to how many colleges( 4?) to graduate. As an employer I'd like to know why?
Oh, and Bev's response was to McCain's swift boat like ads, which even Karl Rove admitted was over the top.
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| 9/18/2008 |
J Peak from Plymouth MI wrote:
Sue Ann, once again you read my mind. It's funny how easily it is to slant when you want to slant. And the "right" could easily do, and write, a same manner of column.
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