Junk mail. Gotta love it. Sometimes, those internets get crossed and I get mail that I should not have.
Check out this lil gem:
Dear Friends,
I am sure most of you are sick to death of all the emails re Palin, McCain etc. I know I am. But I do want to prevent a sort of hopeless depression from settling in amongst us, so I thought I would pass this idea on - not that it's anything new, but simply that we don't seem to be doing it.
Circulating all these emails among like-thinking people is not helping us to move forward against the formidable Republican team. Perhaps we are becoming like Don Quixote charging those windmills. What we need to do is INFILTRATE the pro McCain/Palin media with intelligent, thoughtful, fact-filled information. So my suggestion is that if you have the time to research pro-McCain/Palin blogs and to send in your comments, that might actually be more effective than our inner-circle outrage. At least subscribe to some of the Republican media so that we are truly informed of how the other half thinks and can effectively strike back .
Re: what we can try to do about Palin
Wow. I wrote back a short one liner that said simply " I find sexism despicable "
And this was the response I got back:
"I can't say it better than the piece below, which I didn't write, but it says all it needs to say:
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
* 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 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 less 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.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches,
you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month,
you're a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system
while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.
* 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's values don't represent America's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn'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. "
My response:
you just made my point. The following paragraph is blatantly sexist. If this is the kind of 'change' politics I keep hearing about, well, good luck with that.
Thanks for playing!
* 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're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
stay tuned for the next exciting episode!
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