Racism

A commentary on the subject of racism in this election........
Interesting perspective on Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?

What if the Obama's 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 severely disfiguring car accident ?
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 add icted to painkillers 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 had trouble reading from a Teleprompter?
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 Obama's adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. Would the election pol l numbers be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It distorts, rationalizes, and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background: Barack Obama:Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.Harvard - Jurist Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude.
Joseph Biden:University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.Syracuse University College of Law - Jurist Doctor (J.D.)
Vs. John McCain:United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semesterNorth Idaho - 2 semesters – JournalismMatanuska-Susitna College - B.A. in Journalism