If You........

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 you are unstable.
> * Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, 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 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 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, 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 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.