Just got this e-mail, thought NS should read it. Sorry for the fucked up formatting.
We're all 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.
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, you're well
grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a 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, spend 4 years in the
United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while
sponsoring 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 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, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real
Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left
your wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a good
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 while
your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very
responsible...Never mind that you & First Dude eloped because of your
own out-of-wedlock pregnancy...
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position
in a prestigious 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 you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude," with at least one
DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote
until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the
secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now.
