[ExI] What Makes People Vote Republican

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "spike" <spike66 at att.net>
To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:07 PM

> But everyone can see, even non-yanks, that the major parties have put 
> forth the weakest candidates in memory.  This should be obvious regardless 
> of which party one favors: both Palin and Obama are lightweights.  No, 
> scratch that, they would need a lot more experience to be lightweights. 
> They are both featherweights. Lionel Hutz vs Marge Simpson.

You really think Palin and Obama are on the same plane?:

"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 or co-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 fewer 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."

OK, and ... how about Michelle Obama and the First Dude?:

"If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a high-paying job in 
a
good 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 [nickname "First Dude"], sports at least one DWI?
conviction and didn't register to vote until he was 25 but did belong to a
group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is
extremely admirable."

Olga