Let me see if I have this straight. . .
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raise d by your grand parents, you' re “exotic”, “different ”.
* Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, 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 voter s, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750, 000 people, become chair man of the state Senate' s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the Unite d State s 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 less than 7, 000 people, 20 month s 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 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.
*If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a posit ion 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 value s 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"
I am glad I have wise friends.
