BusinessWeek’s ethics code prevents me from campaigning or showing my political stripes
Who the hell does she think she's kidding?!
Posted on 11/20/2008 1:11:54 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
When my husband and our 15-year-old decided to campaign for Barack Obama in the North Carolina mountains near my parents’ home, I thought our daughter would come away with some early schooling in the arts of organizing and good ’ole shoe-leather politicking. BusinessWeek’s ethics code prevents me from campaigning or showing my political stripes, but that prohibition doesn’t extend to my family. And so, we thought, our high school sophomore would get the civics lesson of her life.
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Maybe the author needs to ask Senator KKK Byrd how hard it was to vote for Obama.
Wonder how he feels about the four black Obama supporters who beat the heck out of an 18 year old college student for daring to wear a McCain pin:
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_Supporters_Beat_Young_Girl_To_Celebrate_Obama_Win
Our MSM is so corrupt, they send their kids out to campaign for the leftist candidates... All in the names of civics, ya know.
We have some hard work to do. Conservatives need to go to journalism school and start working in the press because we can’t expect a fair deal out of these people.
But who could oppose Barack? The answer is anyone who loves America and cherishes our precious, vulnerable liberties.
Business Weak is a crap publication from McGraw Hill who makes billions selling school books. M-H S&P unit totally blew it on ranking debt & mtg debt and execs should be jailed for it.
What does this article have to do with business? I subscribed to BW years ago but it has major Lib bias and often sloppy reporting.
Surprise, surprise.
“I don’t think she was prepared for the close-mindedness,”
There’s really only one way to be prepared......
First WHOA: The author is barred by ethics from “showing my political stripes” - so she sends her 15 year old daughter to work for Obama and then she writes about it! That’s some etics code.
Second: She is accepting a 15 year old kids’ observations of five confederate flags and other scuttlebut as a worthwhile gauge of county wide racism.
Third: She cites as evidence of white racism a poll which shows those affected by racism EVENLY split between Obama and McCain, and she mentions the tiny fact that Obama WON the damn county!
This article is real twaddle.
Let’s remember that Obama won North Carolina by half a million votes.... Guess that’s a sign of racism too because Barack should have won 100% of the vote.
We’re not getting our money’s worth out of the press. They are unreliable and actively pursuing the wrong answer.
We let it happen. Stop subscribing to newspapers and,for the sake of the future, encourage conservatives t go in the newspaper business.
Articles like this make me sick. Obama was elected because he was black, not in spite of it. And likewise McCain lost because he was white. Race was not the only reason but it gave Obama an edge more than it hindered him. Exit polls illustrated this.
At the mock election at my son’s school, the (very few) students who voted for McCain were instantly called racists by their classmates. My son was one of those few students, but race had nothing to do with it... my son is ardently pro-life at the tender age of 11.
Another child who voted for McCain was threatened with “being jumped” for doing so. Disgusting. But the media loves the spin of persecuted minorities being kept down by the (invisible) man.
how many of the non-Obama voter’s would have voted for Clarence Thomas if he was nominated by the Republicans?
I think it’d be a very small percent of the country that ultimately wouldn’t vote for a black candidate in one form or another.
I was not aware of this story. I wonder what the coverage would have been like if the races and political affiliations had been reversed? Hmmm....
Home school.
Obama lied. Democracy died.
I was referring to this story:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID=9C957DF6-624E-4A43-9839-29F8EB3E10C8
Perhaps those confederate flags that she finds racist don’t mean what she believes them to mean.
BusinessWeek’s ethics code prevents me from campaigning or showing my political stripes
Who the hell does she think she's kidding?!
Remember that all your points require YOU to BELIEVE her story. Furthermore, the mere fact someone has a confederate flag in no way makes that person a racist.
The author of the Business Week piece can be thankful that the backward bigots her daughter thought she encountered were not violence-minded like those supporters of the candidate of healing.
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