{"id":4545,"date":"2008-09-18T10:45:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2019-12-23T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:05:37","slug":"obama-vs-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/18\/obama-vs-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama vs. Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5158,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogs.cqpolitics.com\\\/politicalinsider\\\/2008\\\/09\\\/obama-vs-palin.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081231031143\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blogs.cqpolitics.com:80\\\/politicalinsider\\\/2008\\\/09\\\/obama-vs-palin.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 05:41:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 23:20:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 23:20:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5159,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/feeds.feedburner.com\\\/~r\\\/republicoft\\\/HHrt\\\/~3\\\/395885951&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Apparently the following list comes from a viral e-mail making the rounds right now. I haven&#8217;t seen it, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cqpolitics.com\/politicalinsider\/2008\/09\/obama-vs-palin.html\" title=\"CQ Politics: Obama vs. Palin\">CQ Politics posted this excerpt<\/a>. As tends to be the case in these things, it has its fair share of oversimplifications, and there&#8217;s one comparison with McCain that snuck in there, but on the whole, it&#8217;s an effective summary of some of the (many, <em>many<\/em>) reasons why people who think that McCain\/Palin is a better choice for the White House than Obama\/Biden drive me batty, and why there&#8217;s no chance I&#8217;d give my vote to anyone other than the Democratic party this election.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you&#8217;re &#8220;exotic, different.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, and it&#8217;s a quintessential American story.<\/li>\n<li>If your name is Barack you&#8217;re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.<\/li>\n<li>Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you&#8217;re a maverick.<\/li>\n<li>Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.<\/li>\n<li>Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you&#8217;re well grounded.<\/li>\n<li>If you spend 3 years as a 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&#8217;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&#8217;s Affairs committees, you don&#8217;t have any real leadership experience.<\/li>\n<li>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&#8217;re qualified to become the country&#8217;s second highest ranking executive.<\/li>\n<li>If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising two daughters, all within Protestant churches, you&#8217;re not a real Christian.<\/li>\n<li>If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you&#8217;re a Christian.<\/li>\n<li>If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.<\/li>\n<li>If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state&#8217;s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you&#8217;re very responsible.<\/li>\n<li>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&#8217;s values don&#8217;t represent America&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>If your husband is nicknamed &#8220;First Dude&#8221;, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/republicoft\/HHrt\/~3\/395885951\/\" title=\"The Republic of T.: Digest for September 17th through September 18th\">The Republic of T.<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;on the whole, it&#8217;s an effective summary of some of the (many, _many_) reasons why people who think that McCain\/Palin is a better choice for the White House than Obama\/Biden drive me batty, and why there&#8217;s no chance I&#8217;d give my vote to anyone other than the Democratic party this 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