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Subject: I'm a little confused, so...
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> > ... let me see whether I have this straight.....
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> > * 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 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 (sportscaster), 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

> > beautiful 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
> > disfigured wife and
married the heiress, 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.
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>
> > * 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.
> >
> > * If you're husband is nicknamed "First
Dude", with at least one DUI
> > 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; it's all much
clearer now.