I remember people saying that they voted for Bush because he was someone they could have a beer with.

In my last post someone inferred that Mc Cain would be a better president cause he is more like a regular joe.

My question is, when did we as americans decide that we would settle for regular, ordinary, average or common people to lead us? Do we really want that in a time of crisis? Is regular joe code for something else? Where our founding fathers regular joes?

I think it is rather disingenuous not to admit that if Obama did have some of the traits and had made some of the life choices his opponents had, we wouldn't even be talking about him. Americans would not let a Black man get away with that.

I think it is rather disingenuous not to admit that if Obama did have some of the traits and had made some of the life choices his opponents had, we wouldn't even be talking about him. Americans would not let a Black man get away with that.

I agree it would be much more productive if our election process concentrated on issues alone.

Yet, when I read this I had to admit that there does seem to be social double standards at work.

Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?.....think about it. Would the country's collective point of view be different? (10/8/08

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?



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 Cu m 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 Acade my - 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.