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Originally Posted by purple rain
It seems this is only fair: Obama supporters have accused those questioning his own lack of experience of racism.
In fact, I have seen several articles written recently which state that anybody who doesn't vote for Obama is a racist. Apparently, there are no other reasons why people wouldn't support Obama and millions of people voting for Obama simply because he is a (1/2) black man is okay but the reverse is appauling.
But, yep, Obama and Palin are basically where they are because of their race and gender respectively. Neither have the experience required for the offices they are running for. And please don't try to convince me that Obama would have had the media profile to run for President if he weren't a black man. If he were John Doe, white Senator, ranked 99th in senority and little record of authoring and passing legislation, he wouldn't have stood a chance.
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When has any Obama supporter accused somebody of being racist for questioning Obama's experience? People keep throwing that around but can't give any examples of it.
And to say that Obama's race got him to where he is is ridiculous, because he had to fight his way to the Democratic nomination, whereas Palin got picked for the VP slot just to appeal to female voters. Obama has made his case to be president for 18 months and now Palin gets just over two months to make her's after coming out of nowhere. McCain picked her after only meeting her ONCE.
And, true, neither one has all of the experience they need for the respective positions. But at least Obama knows what the president is suppose to do.