Understanding the Candidates

The Following is an email forward that I received, and thought went a long way to sum up the candidates.

*If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic,different."**Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers -- a quintessential Americanstory.**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 five different small colleges before graduating, you're wellgrounded.**If you spend three years as a brilliant community organizer, become thefirst 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 more than 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's HealthandHuman 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, four years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than 7,000 people, 20 monthsas the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualifiedto 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 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, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from theUSA, your family is extremely admirable.**OK, much clearer now.*