> Nice observation about the candidates forwarded by a friend:
>
> 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 killing and eating moose, you’re a quintessential
> American story.
>
> If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
>
> But if you 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 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, 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 only 650,000 people, then you’re
qualified
> to become the country’s second highest ranking executive (and according
to
> the actuarial tables, you have a greater than 30% chance of succeeding
the
> president during your first term).
>
> If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2
> beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real
> Christian.
>
> If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your severely
> handicapped 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 systems while your un-wed
> teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.
>
> 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 values don’t
> represent America’s.
>
> If your 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!
> Whew!!! ........I was worried there for a minute.
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