I hugged a stranger today…

[mscuedawg]

My daughter missed the bus this morning, so I had to drive her. Getting out of another car at the same time was a black woman and her daughter. I've never in my life met her and I don't know her, but I jokingly said, “Oh, you must’ve been up too late watching the debate too.”

She laughed and said, “Can I just say that ever since watching that last night, I am so frustrated. I try so hard to teach my children how to speak so that they are perceived as intelligent and yet Palin gets up there and throws down ‘doin’, goin’, you betcha’…if she is perceived as having the qualities for being Vice President, then American has really lowered its standards. And then to have a 17-year-old up there, five months pregnant…it’s hard enough for us to raise our children without THAT being an example…”

I had to hug her… :hug:

[Rainbowreflect]

1. I would have hugged her too.

:hug: for you! edit: because it is too early to type!

[mscuedawg]

9. Thanks!!

:hug:

[npincus]

2. not quite the same, but this morning

my 6 year-old daugher and I were on the bus- it was crowded and we had to stand. The woman sitting directly in front of my, a young black woman, had on the usual grim morning-face that people have commuting to work... she glanced up at my Obama t-shirt, and she smiled.

That made me feel good.

[mscuedawg]

7. I LOVE THAT!!! Thanks for sharing!!! I have my Obama pins on my purse!

GOBAMA!!! :hug:

[npincus]

10. ...

back at ya, friend! :hug:

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. Palin's parents didn't ever correct her grammar

or she was hanging aorund with the wrong crowd and picked up some atrocious speech patterns.

It just SOUNDS DUMB. And if people fall for that, then I guess they get what they deserve.

You know, it all has to do with this disrespect for education. If someone has an education, they are elitist. It's not about money. Money doesn't make you elite, but an education does. This really does work on people who have not been able to go to collge. There are whole groups of people that believe this.

I can't count the times my dad has talked about ivory tower professors. I can understand when theory has no basis in the real working day world. But when a person has education AND real life experience, there is no ivory tower take on the world.

The Republicans have brought this on. They don't REALLY want an educated populace. People without education are easier to lead by the nose.

[mscuedawg]

8. And Palin talked about her family is full of TEACHERS!!! HA! eom

[Emit]

4. Palin talks in incomplete sentences sometimes, too.

Have you noticed that? Fragments.

[BlooInBloo]

5. I do that, and all I have to show for it is this lousy restraining order....

:cry:


:rofl:

[seabeyond]

6. hubby and i overslept this morning too. only half hour. but didnt hear

the alarm the first couple times, lol

you are right. or the woman talking. that is so frustrating, but has been a wonderful example last eight years litening to bush .... for my children. and i use it often. my kids, texans, get so mad at bush for making texans look ignorant. rants from them. now "ya".... is banned from our house. what a wonderful reminder.

[JaneQPublic]

11. Excellent story, although...

..."I hugged a stranger today" had me thinkin' this was a different kind of post.

:blush:

[ginnyinWI]

12. Amen to that woman's words. I heartily agree. n/t

[NOLALady]

13. A black wal mart employee

supported HRC in the primaries. After I knocked down all of his opposition arguments against Obama, he admitted he was afraid of an Obama nomination. He was really afraid that whites would take to the streets and harm blacks in a fashion similar to the Jack Johnson incident.

"The outcome of the fight triggered race riots that evening — the Fourth of July — all across the United States, from Texas and Colorado to New York and Washington, D.C. Some "riots" were simply African Americans celebrating in the streets. In certain cities, like Chicago, the police allowed them to continue their festivities. But in other cities the police and angry white citizens tried to subdue the celebrations. Police interrupted several attempted lynchings. In all, riots occurred in more than twenty-five states and fifty cities. At least 23 blacks and 2 whites died in the riots, and hundreds more were injured. A few white people were injured when they tried to intervene in a crowd's beating of a black man."

I saw him a couple of days ago and he said something about how he KNEW we'd have an Obama victory. I teased him about his change and welcomed him aboard the Obama train. He said he's no longer afraid. That made my day.