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# Who is the real me you want to vote for?
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/who-is-the-real-me-you-want-to-vote-for/
- Published: 2008-09-16T10:09:08.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:41:40.000Z
- Author: Anthony Barnett
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:49

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** As Gerry Hassan points out in his recent post on the new Labour leader in the Scottish parliament, trading life stories is becoming mandatory, It's becoming a farce in the US, as a witty mail now circulating in cyberspace neatly and Obamaly illuminates. It has just been posted over in our sister blog, openUSA. Here's how it opens,

*I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....*

\* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."

\* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

[ Carry on HERE](https://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/double%5Fstandards%5Fpalin%5Fobama%5Fmccain)