Sep. 15: This took some figuring out

This list is making the e-mail rounds and its source is a mystery or I would give the proper person credit. What I love about this is how nicely it ties in to this video about the inconsistencies in what people are saying about the presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Y’know, that thing that’s frowned upon in politics: comparing apples to apples.

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• If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, 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 five different small colleges before graduating, you’re well-grounded.
  
  
  
• If you spend three 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 eight years as a state senator representing a district with more than 750,000 people, become chairman of the state senate’s Health and Human Services Committee, spend four 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, four years on the city council and six 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 two 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 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 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 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.

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