Elect Barack Obama president

My good friend got this in an email from someone she doesn’t know. I thought I’d share it with you.

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old Texas rancher who was injured while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a heart beat away from being President. The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.”

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a post turtle.”

The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain. “You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t belong up there, she doesn’t know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.”

We must realize that until McCain concedes the election, Obama is NOT the president. We have to get people to the polls. This race is close and as long as McCain is able to focus attention on his trophy wife – oops, how silly of me! – of his trophy VP candidate instead of his archaic and arcane views of our world, we will jeopardize Obama’s winning this election.

As for Sarah – I am a feminist and I’ve waited a long time to have a woman finally get the presidency or at least a VP nod. However, this woman is not the woman I want in there. She’s way too scary. I won’t get into that here, at least for now.

Elect Barack Obama!

I have some difficulty considering John McCain the “hero” they’re making him out to be.

First, I actively advocate for the over 1,500 MIAs still in Vietnam, both alive and dead, whom we have decided to forget about. My personal MIA interest is Dan Borah, but this is about McCain.

I understand the plight of ALL the POWs was horrifying and all who went through that survived probably the most ugly, tragic and certainly pain-filled experiences in their lives.

Now, McCain was offered the opportunity to come home early. He refused and that is a big part of why he is considered a hero. I would ask you to think of it all in another way.

He was the son of an admiral who was highly involved with the government’s involvement in Vietnam. He was high profile for both the Americans and the Vietnamese. If he took their offer, he would have been vilified to the point of being called a traitor. He knew better than to come home before the others.

Okay, I know he did not have a picnic there. I really know that, but, seriously, he could not have chosen to come home early without being labeled a traitor, a coward and countless other epithets the military likes to throw around.

He did not deserve to be held captive. None of the men did, but he didn’t do anything more than any of the others.

Also, hey there, John!!!! Where are the remains of those still left behind? What kind of secrets are you willing to keep in order to get the photo op with the farmer who saved your butt? Why aren’t you pushing for the vets from Vietnam? And why are you so interested in making more and more disabled vets in Iraq? Why did my young cousin die in Iraq? Explain that to me and his wife and his baby, his only child, the son he never met.

We cannot allow John McCain to be President of the United States.