10) first candidate born in Hawaii to head a major party ticket.
9) first candidate elected editor of the Harvard Law Review to head a major party ticket.
8) first candidate with a socialist father to head a major party ticket.
7) first candidate to admit he's had a pot and cocaine problem to head a major party ticket.
6) first candidate from the Chicago machine to head a major party ticket
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5) first candidate with a Muslim first and middle name to head a major party ticket.
4) first candidate who's taught Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" to head a major party ticket.
3) first candidate who allied himself with an America-hating terrorist to head a major party ticket.
2) first candidate of partial African ancestry to head a major party ticket.
1) first candidate who sought out Marxist professors in college to head a major party ticket.
The bottom line is that Obama is making history in more ways that one. As Walter Williams has put it, Obama is no Jackie Robinson.
Stuff like this is part of what's making it easy as pie for me to move from being a Republican to voting for Obama. Ta.
So which items on the list attract you to Obama? Every one of them is true. It's not my biography. It's Obama's.
So, which are you, the kind of Republican that likes the fact that Obama comes from the Chicago machine? (discussed in a number of Obama profiles). The kind that likes the fact that Obama once had a problem with drugs? (discussed in Obama's memoir) The kind that likes the fact that Obama sought out Marxist professors in college. (discussed in Obama's memoir)
Which it it Maggie?
Just going out on a limb here, I'd guess it's the fact that Maggie is about as much a Republican as Lenin. But that's just logic talking, I've got to quit doing that in an age of Obamamania (PBUH).