Political confusion

The following, which I received in an email from a friend, is funny because it's so damned true.

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're exotic and different.
However... If you grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you're a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack, you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
However... If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're an admired maverick.


If you graduate from Harvard Law School and are president of the Harvard Law Review, you are unstable.
However... If you attend five different small colleges before finally graduating, you're well grounded.

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.
However... If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, then left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a real Christian.

If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
However... If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence-only sex education with no other option in your state's school system, while your unwed teenage 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 urban community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent real America.
However... If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", works for big oil, has at least one DUI conviction, no college education, didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from America, your family is extremely admirable.

If you spend three years as a community organizer, 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.
However... If your total resume is local weather girl, four years on the city council, six years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people and 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.