The following was forwarded by faithful blog reader Mom. And just a reminder that you don’t need to be related to send in blog fodder. Juicy or oddball news, emails, opinions, or whatever are always welcome.
I’m unsure who originally wrote this so I can’t give proper credit to the author. It does seem a tad dated as it looks like it was written for the 2008 election. Still, it just had to be shared.
I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..
If you grow up in Hawaii, you’re “exotic, different”.
If you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers and shooting wolves from airplanes, you’re a quintessential American story.
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If you grow up with a single-mom on food-stamps, you’re an elitist.
If you marry a millionairess and own nine homes, you’re a “regular guy”.
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If your name is Barack, you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re an all-American hockey mom and a maverick.
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Graduate from Columbia, then Harvard Law, and you’re unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating 6 years later, you’re well-grounded.
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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 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 13 million people, and in the meantime you sponsor 131 bills and serve 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 consists of: Miss Wasilla, local sportscaster, the Wasilla PTA, 4 years on the town council and 6 years as the mayor of a suburb of 7,000 people, 20 months as the Governor of a state with a population the size of Providence, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.
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If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters in a Protestant church and dedicating your life to helping people, you’re not a real Christian.
If you came back from Vietnam to find that your (beauty queen) first wife had been disfigured by an accident, cheated on her with a rich (beauty queen) heiress, then left your wife and two kids to marry said beauty queen a month later, you’re a man of deep and abiding Christian principles.
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If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education to protect children from sexual predators, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence-only policies, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re a paragon of moral uprightness.
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If your wife is a lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious 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 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 a model for all Americans to follow.
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OK, much clearer now.