What If....

What if Obama was white and McCain were Black -- an interesting discussion.


Consider the following:

What if the Obama’s 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?

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 painkillers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain had 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 Saving and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s)

What if McCain was a more charismatic, eloquent speaker than Obama?

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 fortune from beer distribution?

What if the Obama’s 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.)

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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. There has to be a reason that, in spite of the above, we are where we are today. What if things were switched around ... think about it. Would the country's collective point of view be different? Could racism be the culprit? You make the call. If the races were reversed I don't think we would even have to hold an election. Do you?

"Dear Red States": A Breakup Letter From The Blue States

Dear Red States,

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all of the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly:
We get stem cell research and the best beaches. You get all the slave states.
We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths willy-nilly, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources and our lives on that pipe dream.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners), 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods/sequoias/condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Peace Out,
The Blue States

My book club is looking for a new selection, maybe this will do...

You Betcha...Doggonit...Say It Ain't So Joe

Dancing With The Candidates

Things that made me laugh today...

"From the great Blarney Stone to the green hills of Tara, there's no one as Irish as Barack Obama"

Ah yes, another example of why I'm proud to be Irish. Ok, half Irish. About three years ago we contemplated moving to Ireland, I even bought a book on tips about moving to Ireland. But we thought better of it; family would be too far away, too hard to jump on a plane and be there in a couple of hours whenever we wanted. I still long for nights of being in those old-world pubs drinking good beer and singing Irish tunes, snuggled up in a good wool sweater. Then there's that other part of being snuggled up to a cute Irish lad in a good wool sweater. And damn it, if this election goes awry I may just hop on the next boat across the pond.

The song was written by Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys, aka The Corrigan Brothers, of Ireland. Shay Black is singing it in this piece and seems to be getting all the credit for the song. Check out Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys, you'll love them. Come on, you have to love a group with that name!

McCain plays grab ass with Obama. Granted, Obama is hot. But really, control yourself Johnny boy.

Hemp is a Weed...Bush is a Dope

Buy This Man a Drink.....

Things My Friends Say...

Me, in Macy's tonight while talking to Pam on the phone. I'm getting frustrated trying to find the stupid escalator to go downstairs; every corner I turned had escalators that were coming toward me.

Me: "I'm standing here looking at two escalators and they're both coming at me."

Her: “Sounds like a metaphor for life."

You Betcha...I'm All Mavericky!

You'll need to click on the image to see it clearly. Trust me, it's funny. This woman gives us so much material that it's hard to stop.

Oh What a Difference a Day Makes….

Ok, so it’s eight years, not a day.
When Al Gore was thin and Bill Clinton was not.
When gas prices were, on average, 89⊄ a gallon.


















Eight flippin' years later...




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Things that make you say hmmmm...

Bill Clinton -- $230 billion dollar surplus (fiscal year 2000)
George W. Bush -- $10 trillion deficit (as of September 30, 2008)
Every president from Truman on have reduced the gross federal debt except Reagan and the Bushes