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McCain has a viral video, too and I’m sure he wouldn’t like it if he knew what a viral video was.
Or what YouTube is and exactly how the internet works.
Tonight I finally got to see what other parts of the country has been inundated with for the last few weeks: political commercials. First it was H. Clinton and then it was Obama. Can’t wait to see what the Republicans have and if Huckabee will still be holding on come March 4.
Even my daughter is excited to get into the act. She will be 17 on March 4 but because she will turn 18 by the time the general election rolls around she gets to weigh in on the presidential candidate. She said the girls at her school have been passing around voter registration cards and talking heavily about the election. My daughter is definitely a devil’s advocate. When someone in school starts to harp on Obama she will ask why not Huckabee. If someone is a McCain supporter she begins the talking points on H. Clinton.
“Who are you following?” she asked me one day while I was making dinner.
“Personally, I like Dennis Kucinich,” I said. “Anyone who admits to seeing U.F.Os is my kind of candidate.”
She smirked at me and we agreed to go together to cast our votes. The family who votes together changes the world together.
I hope.
Just in time for Black History Month, President Bush made a statement about the spate of hanging nooses in the autumn of ‘07.
“The era of rampant lynching is a shameful chapter in American history,” Bush said at a black history month event at the White House. ”The noose is not a symbol of prairie justice, but of gross injustice. Displaying one is not a harmless prank. Lynching is not a word to be mentioned in jest.”
Bush then went on to talk about the historical significance of the noose in American history as not just a symbol of terror but a very real tool by some white American against African Americans.
Hmmm….
Well if he knows all this then perhaps he (and congress) shouldn’t have a problem with categorizing the noose as a symbol of hate speech, similar to cross burning and swastikas.
