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The author of the following is unknown. It is an e-mail that has been floating around, and it just so happens to be one that is accurate in every respect. It was passed on to me by another OEN member who received it from a friend, who got it from her third cousin's uncle's wife's kid. It is probable that others have done as I did, and tweaked a part here, added a phrase there. While its original authorship may be uncertain, it is immensely enjoyable and illuminating to read.

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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, dangerous."
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 Columbia University and Harvard Law School at the top of your class and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges in 6 years before finally squeezing out a bachelor's degree, 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 teaching Constitutional Law, 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, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months 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 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 you met in a bar, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're the perfect representative for "Christian values."

*If you teach children about sexual predators and educate teens about responsible birth control and disease prevention methods, you are irresponsible and 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 hates America and advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

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Feel free to add your own coy comparisons of the best candidate for the presidency in decades to the biggest joke of a Republican ticket - ever - in the comments section.

 

 

JC Garrett is a freelance writer and Constitutional scholar from the piney-woods of East Texas. Mr. Garrett owns and operates an independent recording studio, plays several instruments, writes, sings, and produces music. His stories have (more...)
 

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This sorta just wraps it right up by Meryl Ann Butler on Monday, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:08:47 PM
You have captured the essence of American public hypocrisy by John Lorenz on Monday, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:02:57 PM
It's beyond the sarcasm of any comic strip at this point. by daveys on Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:49:39 PM
Thanks! by Amber Fraley on Thursday, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:47:59 PM