Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
- If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re exotic, different.
- Grow up in Alaska, you’re a quintessential American story.
- If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
- If you name your kids Willow, Trig, and Track, you’re a maverick.
- Graduate from Harvard Law School and you’re elite.
- Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well-grounded.
- If you are editor of the Harvard Law Review, 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, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
- If your resume is local weather person, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer 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 teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
- If 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, 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.
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