Wake Up America!

Is Racism Driving this Election?

What if things were switched around?

Think about it... Would the country's collective point of view be different? Consider the following:


What if Obama 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 like John McCain?

What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was divorced?

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 and not Cindy McCain was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally by stealing them from 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 and not McCain couldn't read from a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing FIVE 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 and not Cindy McCain's had made their money from beer distribution?

What if Obama had adopted a white child?



You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflect reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are? This is what racism does. It covers up, 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 - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Chicago School of Law - Senior Lecturer and Professor of Constitutional Law


Joseph Biden:

University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:

United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899.


Sarah Palin:

Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism


Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. - You make the call. Two highly educated professionals vs. a man who finished at the very bottom and a woman who took 9 semesters to obtain a BA in Journalism.