a forward from me mum.....

> 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." But....
>  
> * Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, yours is a
> quintessential
> American story.
>  
>  * If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic
> Muslim.
>  * Name your kids Willow, Trig, Bristol 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 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 your husband is nicknamed "First Dude",
> with at least one DUI
> 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.
>  
>   OK, much clearer now.