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.



  • 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.



7 comments:

  1. Well, that certainly DOES clear things up. I knew I could count on you, Jen, to unmuddy the waters. Thanks!

    (Why do I have this feeling that Nov. 4 will be the date when America either turns a corner or jumps the shark?)

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  2. And just to make sure the horse is completely beaten, I ran across this blog posting that cuts right to the same issue, that being America's growing pride on being ignorant.

    http://www.uniwatchblog.com/2008/09/15/monday-morning-uni-watch-19/

    Yeah, yeah, it's a blog about sports uniforms...what can I say? I'm a nerd about certain things...so sue me. But the point is that the retired jock color commentator was berating his broadcast partner for actually knowing something about a subject. You know, doing some study, applying some critical thinking, articulating those thoughts in a cogent manner. Yes, for this crime of intellect, one must be subjected to the ridicule of the masses. Such is the state of our nation today. It just makes me want to scream.

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  3. Dan! WTF?

    That is the _______est blog I've ever seen. (The ______ is because there simply are no words to describe how ______ it is.)

    Mr. Pretty Boy Hair Plugs looks a tad uncomfy in the pic, as he should. What an idiot. Pride in ignorance, indeed.

    (Also, why a "uni watch" blog anyway? I was always taught that nothin' beats pinstripes.)

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  4. No I wonder I was so confused, I had all that backwards... :) Thanks for clearing that up.

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  5. Nothing indeed can beat pinstripes...except this season when everyone beat the Yankees.

    I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that I got a smack-down for revealing my blogging habits, but so be it. I, for one, long for the day baseball players stop looking like they're wearing their daddies' clothing, what with their baggy jerseys and too-long pants.

    Just to show there's no hard feelings, I give you this new McCain|Palin button to share with your friends and loved ones:

    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/15/8552/16747/764/599284

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  6. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/15/8552/16747/764/599284

    Dan, thank you--I really did LOL at this "button"!

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  7. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/15/8552/16747/764/599284

    Dan, thank you--I really did LOL at this "button"!

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