This is the Obama voter gene pool …

One of the best laughs I got all year was watching a Howard Stern video on youtube that got a ton of voters to agree with basically everything John McCain had said and done–including the choice of Sarah Palin for VP–simply by ascribing it to Barack Obama.  The video I posted below is along that vein but isn’t meant for humor.  It shows the level of knowledge present in many Obama voters.  Be afraid, be very afraid.

Several times during the last few weeks, I had a very dear friend of mine send me this list of what they considered ‘notable’ things so that I would just suddenly realize that none of the problems that I had with obama were based on anything but my refusal to admit I’m a closet bigot.  The first time I read it, I thought it was a joke, much the way that I thought the Howard Stern thing was a joke.  When I got it the second time with the question that I really hadn’t pondered Sarah Palin’s qualifications for vp in all my blogging threads, I realized it wasn’t a joke.  I had a difficult time coming up with a response because, again, my first reaction was you’ve got to be kidding me. 

So, tell me I’m not the only one that thinks that having your family up on stage with you, including your pregnant unwed daughter is no big deal.  Why is it considered ‘parading’–an obviously prejorative word?  All candidates appear on stage with their family.  What difference would it make if it were Obama instead of Palin?  The list just gets nuttier and nuttier.  Who cares if you make a living being a beer distributer?  Running illegal booze during prohibition certainly didn’t hurt the Kennedy family.  People get addictions to all kinds of things all the time … that knows no racial boundaries?  Many past first ladies had problems with alcohol and drugs.  Why would it make any difference to me if it were Cindy or Michelle?  Goodness no!

I really laughed hard at the Keating Five thing since I will still point out to the THREE advisors (including Pritzker) on the Obama board that were major players in this current financial crisis.  If the Keating five thing disqualified McKain, then the current problems of FNMA, Freddie Mac, and the investment banks should’ve disqualified Obama.  Let’s not even go into the Rezko thing and his two ‘religious advisors’: Wright and Pflager.

The Obama supporters I know felt Palin to be completely unqualified to be VP but never addressed my issue of why they think Obama was qualified to be president?  I always hear the Harvard thing, but he was a legacy, just like Dubya.  Since we never have seen any of his transcripts or scores, it’s difficult to say he did anything more than graduate.   Even George Bush managed to graduate from Harvard.  It has a longstanding reputation as the hardest school to flunk out of and you know that if you’ve ever been privvy to university jokes. 

So I finally sent my response back to my long time friend saying I found this list of things to ponder pretty ridiculous.  I also felt that it came from some one suffering from severe holier-than-thou syndrome that is typical of the delusionally religious.  I was not interested in folks divorces, addictions, and bad boy behavior in college.  Finally, the charismatic, eloquent speaker thing only happens when there’s a teleprompter around, in case you hadn’t noticed.

But then it occured to me, how could any of these folks actually notice any of this?  I’d bet none of them read papers and magazines other than maybe USA Today and People.  They probably get what little news the read from the AP wire in their local newspapers and the same feed to their local news stations.  So, when they get all haughty about Palin, ask them what they read?  Ask them if they know who controls congress, who is the speaker of the house and the senate majority leader?  Ask them what they think of the Bush Doctrine?  My guess is that unless they’re out here in blog land with a few of us, you’d better switch to asking football questions if you really want answers.

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 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.