Much Clearer Now
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:20 am
Much Clearer Now
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."
BUT
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, yours is a quintessential
American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
BUT
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School, you are unstable.
BUT
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 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, Public Works, and Veteran's Affairs committees,
you don't have any real leadership experience.
BUT
If your total resume is: Local weather girl, 4 years on the city
council, 6 years as mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20
months as 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
beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real
Christian.
BUT
If you cheated on your wife with a rich heiress, and left your
disfigured 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.
BUT
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.
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.
BUT
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.
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."
BUT
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, yours is a quintessential
American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
BUT
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School, you are unstable.
BUT
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 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, Public Works, and Veteran's Affairs committees,
you don't have any real leadership experience.
BUT
If your total resume is: Local weather girl, 4 years on the city
council, 6 years as mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20
months as 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
beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real
Christian.
BUT
If you cheated on your wife with a rich heiress, and left your
disfigured 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.
BUT
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.
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.
BUT
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.
