[Anyone] huh?

[totem at laplaza.org]

Let me see if I have this straight..... 

 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, you are unstable. 
 Attend five different small colleges before graduating, you're well- 
grounded.


 If you spend three 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 eight 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 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 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 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 becomes 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 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.