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To: LindyBill who wrote (359528)	4/14/2010 10:24:22 PM
From: Neeka	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793739

The One is always shaking hands while bowing. It isn't about germs.

To: LindyBill who wrote (359528)	4/14/2010 11:02:09 PM
From: Maurice Winn	5 Recommendations Respond to of 793739

Lindy, it's fine to shake hands, as long as you remember not to suck your thumb afterwards: <When I made sales calls, I made sure I had stuff in both my hands to avoid handshakes if I could. Keeps down the colds and flu. > Too many sales rejections in a row could lead to the impulse. The obsession with form over substance leads to real disasters like death panels run by Kremlinized medical systems. It wouldn't really make any difference at all if Obama had worn a stars and stripes badge all along. It doesn't matter whether he bows or high fives. There was quite a stir when he fist-bumped Michelle. Absurd stuff. He won the election for the most superficial of reasons = he has fantastic melanin content and it's tear-jerking that he has come from the slave quarters to the White House.* Except he didn't. His melanin was Made in Kenya and imported duty free to the USA. More than likely, his Kenyan ancestors were dealing in slaves and actually sold some down the river to slave merchants who carted them hither and yon, no doubt some ending up in the USA. Now, here he comes to enslave their lucky descendants, who, strangely, vote for it in a version of Stockholm Syndrome. I write lucky descendants because as per the law of unintended consequences, the descendants of the slaves hit the jackpot in the USA. Not many of them are defecting back to Africa now that they are free to go. Sure their ancestors suffered, but mine did too. That's no skin off my nose really. We all get our cards dealt, some with aces and some with hardly a picture card. Bad luck for my ancestors and lucky for me. I don't think Barack needs to apologize to Michelle for the USA's bygone slavery. It really had nothing to do with anyone alive now. Now, more people have buyer's remorse over voting for Barack than there are African Americans who are worried about having had their ancestors captured and shipped to America or whatever it was called then [bummer to have had ancestral slaves taken to Cuba or Haiti or Venezuela or Brazil but even that probably beats Africa - well, maybe not Haiti or Cuba]. Mqurice * okay, it was more than excellent melanin content, but that was a significant factor, and more than enough to push him to victory.