Been kind of slow here. We’ve been traveling – it was shirtsleeve weather in Colorado. We drove from Denver to Bozeman today – icy roads around Cheyenne, but thankfully the Mrs. was driving. The temperature dropped from 40’s to low tens as we moved north. Between Billings and Bozeman we had drifting snow and those tempestuous SUV’er who pass and blind you with snow. I need flashing window sign – never mind what it would say.
I wondered today as we passed through miles of prairie how the election would have turned out if Obama had two kids who had dropped out of high school, one of whom was knocked up.
It may be true that we have a black president, but I’m pretty sure we still have double standards.
Piece of Mindful 
Would you care to tell us what double standards you’re talking about? You’re language is muddled here.
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It’s not obvious to you? A white gal with two dropout kids, one knocked up, is a serious candidate for the vice presidency. Imagine that Obama could have been even a VP nominee in identical circumstances.
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No, it’s not obvious. First, there’s the apples to oranges thing (VP v P.) Secondly, If Palen had a Harvard Law degree and was married to someone with the same do you think she would have had more credibility as a candidate? Do you think that if she had such credentials she would have the kids she has? Last, and most relevant, McCain/Palen lost the election. So where is the double standard?
You talk relentlessly about “living in the real world.” Is creating a hypothetical construct doing that? I think you’re “issue trolling” as Wulfgar would put it. All this thought does is reveal the paranoia at the penumbra of your glass-half-empty psyche.
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Absolutely. She certainly would have been more specific about her reading material.
The odds say no, but it’s possible.
Still, Dave, despite my tongue-in-cheekyness, I agree with you. You point out precisely why I have no stomach for alternate reality scenarios. They may reinforce our biases, but they are no proof or foundation for them.
That having been clarified, I do agree with Mark that we still have many double standards. I’m just not certain that this is the best way to expose them. If one needs a simple example, how about the number of mainstream pundits who dismissed the aforementioned Harvard Law educations as simply ‘affirmative action” at work? (O’Reilly, Dobbs, Sewell, just to name a few.)
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I think this is a precise demonstration of a double standard in that white trailer trash was accepted as a credible candidate by the Republicans, whereas Obama had to be virtually pure – perfect and highly educated along with wife, and beautiful children. His oldest reminds me of Halle Berry. If he had failed in one of those areas, he would not have been viable.
It may be alternative reality in your mind, but such are the judgments in real life that we pass every day.
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I never said there aren’t double standards. The world is full of them and they non-partisan spanning the breadth of ideology.
In someone’s context the fact that Palen has those kids disqualified her for office. So what? The world is full of assholes so I guess we have to look to outcomes to measure the average assholeness of society.
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I am so going to hold you to that – since we practice virtually none of your economic theory, we have no outcomes to measure. Puts you in a bad spot.
You know what? You’re having a bad day. So what. This is boring.
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Double Standard: A president who smokes two packs of cigarettes a day.
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I wonder what kicks up more blinding snow, an SUV or Semi?
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Semi.
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