Finally Over...

Well its finally over and Barack won!! w00t! Pretty cool to be alive when the US elects the first African-American President. I was thinking, now that the election is over wouldn't it be interesting if John McCain, with no chance of ever becoming President now, became old John McCain, like John McCain circa 2000? He doesn't have to worry about appeasing the GOP anymore so he could actually be a maverick again! haha, sorry, just wanted to get maverick in there. And doesn't it say something about Sarah Palin's state that they are most likely going to re-elect Ted Stevens, a convicted felon?? Ah well, at least we don't have to see her on TV all the time now.

My mother sent me this email the other day. I don't know where it came from originally, but it definitely makes you think about how differently this race could have turned out. Here it is...

This is a close presidential race. But we really haven't measured the effect of "race" on the race. Think about this and what it means about how important "race" is.

Here it is:

Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?.....think about it.

What if the Obamas 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 severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?

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 addicted to pain killers 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 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 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 Obamas had adopted a white child?

You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

Educational Background:

Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris 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 - 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 it is a lot. And this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.

I thought that was interesting, especially because if even a quarter of that stuff had been true about Obama, there is no way he would have even received the nomination. Hell, he probably wouldn't even be a Senator.

So.... Here's to the next 4-8 years!!

Go America!!!