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I got this as a forward and enjoyed it
I admit to not being the most politically savvy person but am a
> bit confused. Let me see if I have this straight:
>
> If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're
> 'exotic, different.' If you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers,
> that's a quintessential American story.
>
> If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
> Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
>
> Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable. Attend 5
> different small colleges before graduating and you're well-grounded.
>
> If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become
> the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter
> registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as
> a constitutional law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator,
> representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the
> state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, are elected to 4
> years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million
> people > and sponsor or co-sponsor 131 bills and serving on the Foreign
> Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees,
> you don't have any real leadership experience.
>
> If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city
> council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than 7,000 people,
> 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then
> you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking
> executive
>
> If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while
> raising 2 daughters, you're not a real Christian .
>
> If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left
> your first wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a
> Christian. If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education,
> including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of
> society.
>
> If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only,
> with no other option in sex education in your state's school system and
> then your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very
> responsible.
>
> If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a
> high-paying job in a good law firm to work for the betterment of her
> inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's
> values don't represent America 's.
>
> If your husband [nickname 'First Dude'] sports at least one DWI
> conviction and didn't register to vote until he was 25 but did belong to
> a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA , your
> family is extremely admirable.
>
> OK, much clearer now.
I admit to not being the most politically savvy person but am a
> bit confused. Let me see if I have this straight:
>
> If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're
> 'exotic, different.' If you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers,
> that's a quintessential American story.
>
> If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
> Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
>
> Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable. Attend 5
> different small colleges before graduating and you're well-grounded.
>
> If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become
> the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter
> registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as
> a constitutional law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator,
> representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the
> state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, are elected to 4
> years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million
> people > and sponsor or co-sponsor 131 bills and serving on the Foreign
> Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees,
> you don't have any real leadership experience.
>
> If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city
> council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than 7,000 people,
> 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then
> you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking
> executive
>
> If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while
> raising 2 daughters, you're not a real Christian .
>
> If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left
> your first wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a
> Christian. If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education,
> including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of
> society.
>
> If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only,
> with no other option in sex education in your state's school system and
> then your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very
> responsible.
>
> If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a
> high-paying job in a good law firm to work for the betterment of her
> inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's
> values don't represent America 's.
>
> If your husband [nickname 'First Dude'] sports at least one DWI
> conviction and didn't register to vote until he was 25 but did belong to
> a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA , your
> family is extremely admirable.
>
> OK, much clearer now.