WHAT IF...?

heard thom hartman reading a piece of this, found a version of it on a blog, revamped some of it, added to it, included links)


What if Obama graduated at the bottom of his class in college with a class rank of 894 out of 899?
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5885150&page=1

What if Obama had gotten behavioral demerits (over 100 demerits each year) that helped to put him near the bottom of his graduating class? And that he admitted to being “something of a discipline problem to begin with.”
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5885150&page=1
http://www.johnmccain.com/informing/News/Speeches/9ab40f08-d2ce-46c4-bae4-18e65994927c.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_and_military_career_of_John_McCain

What if Obama admitted “I was joking with an old veteran friend, who joked with me, about Iran” when he sang “Bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran” and thought it was funny?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/presidential.debate.transcript/

What if Obama flip-flopped on whether we should have a long term presence in Iraq or not--at least 4 times?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/29/politics/animal/main4055175.shtml
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/06/mccain-permanent-bases/

What if Obama championed the savagery of gunning down wolves from low flying airplanes?
http://coloradoindependent.com/10165/aerial-wolf-killing-ad-blasts-palin-in-colorado

What if Obama had paraded four of his five children across the stage including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
http://www.adn.com/photos/sarah-palin/v-gallery/story/510085.html?/3169/gallery/510081-a516520-t3.html

What if Obama’s future son-in-law dropped out of high school to take a job and was “rooting” for Obama to win the election but couldn’t help because he wasn’t registered to vote?
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/politics/story/5D37A33116A19022862574E200139311?OpenDocument
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-levi-newoct14,0,2759802.story

What if Obama’s wife was from a family who made their fortune by selling beer?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/03/politics/main3991700.shtml

What if Obama’s wife, dependent children and trust companies owned 8 properties (both houses and condos valued over $11 million) but Obama, himself, didn’t own any property?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12700.html

What if Obama was still married to his first wife when he obtained a marriage license to marry his second wife?
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/25454&Itemid=1

What if Obama admitted he had been in a series of extra-marital affairs and eventually left his first wife (and their daughter and his two adopted sons) after his wife was in a severely disfiguring car accident?
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/25454&Itemid=1
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5713979

What if Obama had seven children?
http://marriage.about.com/od/politics/p/johnmccain.htm

What if Obama had been born in Panama?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_and_military_career_of_John_McCain

What if Obama’s wife had been addicted to pain killers and was stealing them from a charitable organization?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/11/ST2008091103947.html

What if Obama had a long affair while he was still married?
http://marriage.about.com/od/politics/p/johnmccain.htm

What if Obama had compared his wife to a “trollop” and called her a “cu*t” in front of reporters?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html

What if Obama was known as McNasty back in high school?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html

What if Obama called his colleagues and opponents “shitheads,” “assholes,” and at least in once case a “fucking jerk?”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html

What if Obama crashed three Navy planes and lost two more (including crashing one he flew solo on his way to a football game in Philadelphia?
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_mccain_lost_five_u.htm

What if Obama couldn’t read a teleprompter?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/politics/06mccain.html

What if Obama attributed his ability to be elected to his political office by a man who claims to be a witch hunter?
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2008/09/palins_new_pastor_problem.html

What if Obama's Presidential Transition Chief Aided Saddam Hussein?
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/102975/exposed:_mccain's_presidential_transition_chief_aided_saddam_hussein/

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating 5?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

What if Obama was the one who was known for his public display of a bad temper?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html

What if Obama had 83 lobbyists working for him in various capacities, all of whom recently worked for the financial industry he is now attacking?
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9753_mccain_campaign_lobbyists_wall_street_aig.html

What if Obama had 177 lobbyists working for his campaign as either aides, policy advisers, or fundraisers?
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9753_mccain_campaign_lobbyists_wall_street_aig.html

What if Obama’s onetime campaign chairman, (former Senator Phil Gramm),
“used a backroom maneuver in late 2000 to slip into law a bill that kept credit default swaps unregulated” and “these financial instruments greased the way to the subprime meltdown that has led to today's economic crisis”?
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9753_mccain_campaign_lobbyists_wall_street_aig.html

What if Obama’s campaign manager, (Rick Davis), owned a company that was receiving monthly payments of $15,000 from the mortgage giant Freddie Mac and did nothing to earn the monthly payment except provide Freddie Mac with an important connection and possibly influence the senator?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/161218


How far would Obama be in the polls if his life, choices, way of thinking, and his behavior was more like that of his opponent or his opponent’s running mate? Why do we overlook, excuse, or forgive the same lifestyle, choices, thinking and behavior for some people but not all people?


What if all of these things had nothing to do with Obama, his judgment, his personal life, his choices or his behavior? (Because they don’t have anything to do with him.)

What if you allowed yourself or made yourself vote for the best candidate simply because he is the best candidate? What if you didn’t let prejudice or racism stop you from voting for the best person to head our country?


“Simply put, prejudice is bias. Prejudice refers to the negative opinions, judgments, beliefs, and feelings we hold about individuals because of their membership in certain groups or categories. When these negative views lead us to act in certain ways toward these individuals and groups, the result is discrimination.”

http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/racism/q01.html

10 things you can do to fight prejudice and racism:
http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/racism/q17.html

More info:
http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/racism/contents.html

The change starts with you.

K&R

Just posted on my web site.

apparently have to be twice as good.

of a piece of shit as her white male republicon counterparts)

It's like a can of Republicon(tm) cures the womaniness.