Hmmm.... Where do I start. Bandagi, a word from the Hindi language, translated literally means a bond. I suppose what is amazing about being an American of color is the fact that you feel like an outsider as often as you feel like an insider. I am Muslim albeit not a very good one but when "Arab" and "Muslim" become slurs accepted by the mainstream media you start to feel that bond somehow get stronger. This is the land of opportunity and somehow an American who came up from nothing went to the best schools and was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review has to defend that he is not an "Arab" that he is not a "Muslim." Why does it matter... The attacks on September 11th were just as offensive to me as to the rest of America. I find the war that extreme conservatives in the Islamic world are fighting to be offensive and outright wrong. Oh and by the way for those that forget the attack on the World Trade Center in Oklahoma was carried out by a "White Christian". Wait John McCain is white and Christian and his running mate spoke at a rally for a pro seccionist movement in Alaska maybe we should be more worried about them... God seems to speak to Palin like he did to Bush and we all know where that got us.
Bandagi is a bond and I am bonded to my home, bonded to the good qualities it possesses and to the ones that still need work, I am an American...
10.23.2008
Top ten reasons Palin should head the ticket
How many of you in the recent weeks have determined in fact that a Palin-McCain ticket would be far more appealing than a McCain-Palin Ticket. In winning Letterman style, I proffer the following top ten reasons why Palin should head the Republican ticket:
10. Amount of hairspray is the best measure for poise under pressure.
9. You can’t take the small town out of Palin, but she can bring the real America back into Washington, marginal literacy and all.
8. Much more willing to label terrorists, Arabs, Muslims, and all those other bad guys.
7. She actually requires less makeup for TV appearances.
6. It would markedly reduce the necessity for White-House subscriptions to many publications.
5. She doesn’t say “My friends”.
4. If I had to choose, God is more likely to speak to her.
3. Tina Fey provides the necessary comical outlet for presidential faux pas, who can really pull McCain off?
2. A governorship is clearly more executive a function than serving on the U.S. Senate.
1. Her recent proximity to Russia.
10. Amount of hairspray is the best measure for poise under pressure.
9. You can’t take the small town out of Palin, but she can bring the real America back into Washington, marginal literacy and all.
8. Much more willing to label terrorists, Arabs, Muslims, and all those other bad guys.
7. She actually requires less makeup for TV appearances.
6. It would markedly reduce the necessity for White-House subscriptions to many publications.
5. She doesn’t say “My friends”.
4. If I had to choose, God is more likely to speak to her.
3. Tina Fey provides the necessary comical outlet for presidential faux pas, who can really pull McCain off?
2. A governorship is clearly more executive a function than serving on the U.S. Senate.
1. Her recent proximity to Russia.
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