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Political Correctness
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:07:46 +1100
From: jingles <mommab...@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Political Correctness
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Geno4321 wrote:
> "jingles" <mommab...@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:490bc4e2_1@news.peopletelecom.com.au...
>> Geno4321 wrote:
>>> "jingles" <mommab...@mail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:490ba4ef$1_5@news.peopletelecom.com.au...
>>>> **Rowland Croucher** wrote:
>>>>> jingles wrote:
>>>>>> I was watching a news report from the US yesterday and was surprised
>>>>>> to hear Obama described as a man of 'colour'. Surely we are all
>>>>>> people of one colour or another...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> jingles
>>>>> And I heard him say he once shared his toys in kindergarten with
>>>>> another kid so he must be a communist :-)
>>>> Or a well raised child....8>)
>>>> jingles
>>>>
>>>> --
>>> Obama is a American that all can be proud of.
>>> He is part FDR and pat JFK.
>>> And I have lived long enought to know all three of these Americans.
>>> One a Protestant, one a Catholic and one an Afro-American. America is
>>> truely a melting pot.
>>>
>>>> http://jinglesb.googlepages.com/home
>>>
>> But surely that is what it has always prided itself on....
>> jingles
>>
>> --
>
> Tell that to the Faith Based Christians.
> They hardly tolerate Republicans.
> They belive that FDR was the devil who tried to make America a Socialist pit
> of hell. And that Clinton who brought sex into the White House was a George
> Washington plant. Now those demon Democrats want to put a slave into the
> White House. And banish their hero Soccer Mom to the kitchen.
> grin
>
>> http://jinglesb.googlepages.com/home
Interesting comment made by one of our (Oz) political commentators in
the US.
That - many Americans are stating that they will vote for Obama because
they don't want to appear racist. In actual fact they will not vote for
him. Although he appears to be the 'people's choice' he could fail.
jingles
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