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[Mary from TN]

This white granny of 3 has been supporting Barack since the day he announced his run.  I love politics (hubby says - too much) and found this great blog because of McCain's choice.  The country is so lucky to have Mudflats and the other Alaskan blogs!!!  It's certainly made it more difficult for the "spin Docs" on the GOP side the "spin" their half-truths.

Some of the battleground states that need people calling your voters from out of states - let me know so I can get busy.  It's a waste of time and effort in east TN - the RED capital of the south.     

[Mary from TN]

I thought I would add this to my post (I use it on just about every blog 

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' and 'different.'

Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're an American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, then you're well-grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, help register 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, 8 years as a State Senator of a district of 750,000 people, chair the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people, sponsor 131 bills, and serve on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works, and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

If your resume is:  local weather girl, 4 years on the city council
and 6 years as the mayor of a town of 7,000 people, 2 years as governor of a state of 650,000 people, you're qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

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, left your ill wife, and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the use of birth control, you erode the fiber of American society.

If you staunchly advocate abstinence-only education, while your teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're 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, you don't represent America's family values.

If your husband is called 'First Dude', has a DWI conviction, didn't register to vote until 25, and was a member of a group that advocated secession of Alaska from the USA, yours is the quintessential American family.


And, finally, if you're famous for your quick temper, you're the one to have your finger on the red nuclear button.


OK, much clearer now.

[Ennealogic]

Hi Mary, love the analysis in your post!  The incongruities keep comin'.

Oh, and the Smokies is where I was born!  I used to know the words to "On Top of Old Smoky" ...

[Snoskred]

Welcome to the forums!

We're probably going to see that copy and paste a lot here.. 

[Cassie Jeep Pike Palin]

 :welcome:Granny! I'm a granny of two..and I also LIVE for Mudflats!

[Mary from TN]

Thanks so much for the forum!!  

And, I hope you are right about the copy and paste....I want it on every blog possible with the hope that the 'concept' of comparison like this makes it to our 24/7 'entertainment' cable networks - but they seem to be more enthralled with lipstick and pigs!

[Kim.is.me]

Hey Smoky you must be somewhere east of me middle Tn here.

[Mary from TN]

Knoxville area.....isn't this a greatest blog?!?!?!  I only wish the people of TN would take a 'time out' and learn just a little bit about the Palin/McGoo ticket before they vote.....but they won't.  They would vote Republican even if it was Lassy the dog on the ticket. 

[Kim.is.me]

Nashville area here............you are right about the not being willing to learn. I have relatives in KY that will not believe that Obama is not an Muslim just wanting to give the US to Africa.  I have one friend that is still mad that Fred didn't win but is thrilled now that Palin may become pres...

[marral]

Fantasic 2nd post, Mary - would you mind if it were borrowed?  If so, to whom (or how) should it be attributed? 

[Mary from TN]

Just say that "it's a 'copy and paste' you found on this great Alaskan blog site called Mudflats"

(Let's get as many people from the lower 48 to this Mudflats as we can!  Educate, educate, and educate some more.....especially any of the PUMAs you may know.)

[marral]

Done! 

www.conqueringingthedivide.com

Thanks. 

[DownInMississippi]

Hello neighbor