This e-mail was circulating around Tiffany’s office and I found it amusing:
From: Tiffany
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:48 AM
To: Me
Subject: Who are you voting for? You are The Boss… which team would you hire?
I just thought this interesting… More info on our candidates… Not that I am advocating any of the candidates… But do you really know the background of the candidates versus what they look like at the debates?
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You are The Boss… which team would you hire?
With America facing historic debt, multiple war fronts, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, skyrocketing Federal spending, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc. etc., this is an unusually critical election year.
Let’s look at the educational background of your two options:
Obama:
Occidental College - Two years.
Columbia University - B.A. politic al science with a specialization in international relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
& Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 of 899
& 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
Now, which team are you going to hire ?
I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..
- If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
- Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, 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 lady, 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 beautiful 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 laywer 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.
OK, much clearer now.
I just want to note, Obama as a “community organizer” was working for ACORN when doing his voter registration drives. ACORN has been indicted on voter registration fraud using the same methods Obama used and trained other ACORN volunteers. In addition, ACORN is also responible for pressruring banks to make risky loans to less than qualified applicants by threatning to impede future actions of the bank if it wish to grow or aquire new banks under the community revitalization act of 1977. Beleive me, having a Harvard eductaion is overated, in my field I run into these guys all the time, ther are pretty on paper but have absolutly no substance or any sense of the “real world’ which is why my company will not hire them. The cost more than the pain they are worth. Which is what you will get with Obama. Lastley there is no need to question peoples faith, only God knows that. On the last note, Palin’s husband was not officially a member of the secetionist group, he attended one meeting, thats it, one meeting. Why are we talking about Palins husband again? In the end its Obama vs McCain, lets stick to the real issues here. Rick you are starting to sound like the lunatic on HBO, Bill Maher, you can do better than that.
Resisting the urge to categorically rip you a new asshole on your short novel above, let me instead simply ask you this:
Why are you voting for John McCain? And if you tell me you support McCain because you support God, I’m going to vomit on my monitor.
First off, you take yourself too seriously. Second I dont vote for someone based on thier faith. I support someone based on thier ability to suupport the firm foundation of the constitution to which our lovely government (liberals which can be democrat or republican) have has decided to ignore to fill thier coffers and lust for power. With that said I really dont have a canidate to vote for. In the end its the less of two evils isn’t it. Being an independent conservative and I am not afaid to admit it, Obama certaintly doesnt fit the bill. If you want to look to who is to blame for our current financial crisis, look no further than Fannie and Freddie, oh and one more person, Franklin Raines who so happens to be Obamas housing economic advisor. Kind of makes you question Obamas judgement of peoples competence to do the job, dont it……
PS. Rick dont get me wrong I love your blog so dont hate the player, hate the game, and my asshole is delicate so please leave it alone.
Hellyar, you’re the one who wrote a 16-line comment in response to the post, which was nothing more than an e-mail forward I found funny. And in that comment you told me I’m starting to sound like “That lunatic on HBO, Bill Maher.” Then you told me I could do better than that in a pompous and chastising way.
Not to mention you threw in that you bump elbows with Harvard guys all the time and called a Harvard education overrated. Should I rip on you because you’re trying to call yourself important or for the idiocy of trying to paint a Harvard education in a negative light?
THEN you tell me I take myself too seriously. Who’s kidding who here, Matt?
Not to mention the fact that not a single word of the original post was mine save for the line “This e-mail was circulating around Tiffany’s office and I found it amusing:”
In response to both your comments, let me quote from Billy Madison:
“Mr. (Hellyar), what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
And now let me quote from Patton Oswalt:
“The thing I don’t understand are people who support George Bush and they’re not billionaires. Like that makes no fucking sense. They’re like, ‘I think George Bush is fucking awesome!’ and you’re like ‘Wow, how much do you make? You must be like a billionaire!’ and they go ‘I make like $30,000 a year’ and you’re like ‘Wow, Bush fucking hates you, did you know that? He fucking cannot stand you. He wouldn’t be caught dead with you.’
Seeing someone like that is like meeting a girl that like, Michael Damian is touring the state fairs in the midwest, still doing his, you know, remix of ‘Rock On’ and she fucking blows him by the tilt-a-whirl and then goes home to her mom and goes ‘Fucking Michael Damian’s in love with me mom, he’s gonna take me out of this town’ and she’s like sweetie, no, he appreciated the blowjob but he’s not gonna come back for you. That’s … he’s gonna move on to other state fairs but he won’t come back to rescue you. You will go and work at the Fashion Bug tomorrow like you will until the day you die.’”
Now on a serious note, Hellyar, McCain is a bigger dolt than Bush who was one of, if not THE, worst president in American history. And he’s running his campaign 10x more incoherently than either of Bush’s campaigns. If the McCain campaign translates directly to how he’s going to run run the county, this nation is in for worse times than the last 8 years. I mean, HE TRIED TO QUIT! He blatantly lies to the American people and his supporters don’t care. I’m talking about obvious lies, not political gray areas common to the game. Like he’s telling everyone “Fuck you.” This guy’s basically a carbon copy of Bush that’s going to have the exact same advisers directing his decisions.
If you are happy with the current Bush administration, then by all means, vote for McCain. If you like the fact that for the last 8 years, every measurable category of government success has worsened, knock yourself out. And don’t get me started on Palin. It’s a joke, Hellyar. You, as usual, are the punchline.
Kelvin of the election year. Just like back in college. Really Hellyar, relax. It was just an e-mail forward.
As an observer from England I watch the USA election campaigns with interest and amazement sometimes to peoples’ priorities on who they want to be in power. Ofcourse the person’s belief’s are important including their qualifications and experience in life. I feel it has to be more than that though.
1. USA foreign policy is paramount at this stage and the need to find peaceful means rather than aggression and thinking you can solve every country’s problems/conflicts. The threat of terrorism has been distorted and has led to more violence and dislike/hate of Americans because of the war in Iraq & Afghanstan - the reasons for intervening in these countries is widely misunderstood by most American people. The outside world see things very differently.
USA foreign policy and the 2 wars has cost the country billions (if not trillions) of $s which will never be recovered. You will need a President to address all this.. and the question is should it be McCain or Obama? The cots of the war is affecting the state of your your economy today, health care etc.
Secondly most Americans believe the USA is a land of opporunities, but is it really? when you look at the current social injustice brought by ‘capitalism’, unemployment, recent repossessions leading to more homelessness, people failing to have adequate health care provision or even none at all, adequate housing, affordable higher education etc. For such a powerful and developed nation you will need a leader who can address all these social issues. The gap between the rich and poor is enormous and it can’t just go on and on. Someone has to address these problems & the question should be who can?
Finally the current economic situation , which can even escalate if not managed properly will need a president who is able to come up with a meaningful solution not just for the big companies but for the ordinary American too who has lost as well in this economic down turn.. again the question should be who can effectively turn this around for the benefit of all not just corporate America.
As an outsider it buffles me how Bush was voted for a second term…
I found these comments very interesting. I am also an observer from the UK, and am reading your article because it was linked to in today’s Times. I wonder what you would think of the article that linked to you? http://timesonline.typepad.com/schoolgate/2008/10/do-the-educatio.html