FWD:doublethink

A very good friend of mine sent me this post.
"I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

> * If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're
> "exotic, different."
>
> *Growing 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 and 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
> rankingexecutive.
>
> * 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 laywer 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, 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."
Democracy is what everyone praises skyhigh but drags in mud everything that makes it worthwhile.
benny
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