Pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich [another email from nobama]

email | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | Maya Angelou

[upchuck]

Dear fellow American,

I am not writing to you as a black voter, or a woman voter, or as a voter who is over 70 years old and six feet tall. I am writing to you as a representative of this great country -- as an American.

It is your job to vote. It is your responsibility, your right, and your privilege. You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich.

But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.

Voting has already begun in some states that President Obama needs to win. So please use this handy tool to make sure your friends in those key states know where to cast their ballot. You will be doing them a great favor.

As a country, we can scarcely perceive the magnitude of our progress.

My grandmother and my uncle experienced circumstances that would break your heart. When they went to vote, they were asked impossible questions like, "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" When they couldn't answer, they couldn't vote.

I once debated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. about whether an African American would ever be elected president. He believed it would happen within the next 40 years at the time -- I believed it would never happen within my lifetime.

I have never been happier to have been proven wrong.

And since President Barack Obama's historic election, we've moved forward in courageous and beautiful ways. More students can afford college, and more families have access to affordable health insurance. Women have greater opportunities to get equal pay for equal work.

Yet as Rev. King wrote, "All progress is precarious."

So don't sit on the sidelines. Don't hesitate. Don't have any regrets. Vote.

Go, rise up, and let your friends and family in early vote states know where they can vote today. We must make our voices heard:

http://my.barackobama.com/Help-Your-Friends-Vote-Early

Your vote is not only important. It's imperative.

Thank you,

Dr. Maya Angelou

P.S. -- Not on Facebook? Send your friends to vote.barackobama.com -- don't let technology get in the way of your incredible duty to our democracy.

[upchuck]

Is nobama concerned about the Black vote?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Buh-bye, Barry!

Don't let the door hit you on your Clymer on your way out.

[Repeat Offender]

It is your job to vote.

Having a regular job is so 2008.

[PJBankard]

You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer

Words of a true idiot. With her own words she segregates and defines people as being unequal.

Secondly, voting doesn't create equality among people. Equality is created when people see themselves and others as the same. As of a result of this equality, which is stated in our Declaration of Independence and provided by our Constitution, people have a vote.

[mindburglar]

She’s the same idiot who declared Bill Clinton, “The first black President”, because he ate junk food.

Affirmative Action Poet. Loser. Racist old bag.

From Wikipedia:

Maya Angelou, holds many honorary doctorates, calls herself and is referred to by many as “Dr. Angelou” despite holding no undergraduate or advanced (non-honorary) degree.

[funfan]

“I once debated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. about whether an African American would ever be elected president. He believed it would happen within the next 40 years at the time — I believed it would never happen within my lifetime”

So Obama debated Martin Luther King Jr when he was 7 years old or younger? I wonder in which of the 57 states they met

[Jane Long]

The headline says the email is from nobama...it's actually a letter from Maya Angelou, written on 0's behalf.

Hey, Maya...don't forget MLK, Jr. was a Republican. Wonder what he'd say about the content of 0's character.

[dead]

Barak Obama now accepting votes from ugly fat people.

How magnanimous.

[Secret Agent Man]

I believe they met in “Imaginationland”.

I am sure if pressed, he’ll send out his press liar to say that this was a story of multiple amalgamated characters and events that were morphed together to make a larger point.

[Montanabound]

No, that was Toni Morrison who said Clinton was the first Black president. Maya Angelou read her idiotic “a rock, a tree” poem at the Clinton inauguration.

[uglybiker]

Barack Obama

Pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich

He's Still Gonna F*** You

[dead]

It's such a joke that this dipshit is considered a great poet. Seriously, no joke, this is an example of her work:

Women's Work
I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

I got a bag to tote.
I got a right to vote.
I got a poem to type.
Don't believe the hype.
The last four lines were mine. Actually, the very last line belongs to Flava Flav. Me and Flav are both better than Maya.

[mindburglar]

Thank you.

[mindburglar]

Most awesome tagline ever. That is my ringtone.

[mindburglar]

Most awesome tagline ever. That is my ringtone. BAM!