re: #603 Gus 802
Hey Gus! Hope you don’t mind me interuppting here, but even if everything that’s been said that’s negative about Sarah Palin is true - and I don’t know about all of her quitting the Wasilla City Council to run for Mayor type stuff, think of this: if someone told you in January of 2007, that a newly elected US Senator named Barack Obama, about whom we knew very little, other than he had graduated from Columbia College and Harvard Law School - and was president of the Law Review and had written a book calling some preacher hardly any of us had heard of, Jeremiah Wright his “spiritual advisor” and then someone bought (I suppose) one or more of the Rev’s DVD’s for sale which shocked many if not most of White America with it’s blatant white racism (Black Liberation Theology) and other than being an Illinois State Senator who preferred to vote “present” on most bills with which he was presented, would be the next President of the United Sates of America and leader of the Free World, would you have believed them?
I mean, the GOP called him nothing but a community organizer (which was manifestly untrue) and an empty suit (cause he had no “track record” other than voting present, no college grades or transcrpits, no law school grades or transcripts and nothing written by him as President of the Harvard Law Review) and …voila, he was our next President. In part I submit, because he was a Black man (garnering 96% of the Black vote) and it was - IMO - waaay past time a Black man got elected POTUS.
But you know, it’s also waaay past time that a woman got elected POTUS too.
So all I’m saying is that American Politics can be very, very strange. And in 2012 I don’t think ANYONE out here can say who’s gonna be the GOP nominee and whether or not President Obama will win re-election.