Obama, McCain, Palin and Biden

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."
However, grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're a quintessential
American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic "Muslim" (who, by
the way, is a Christian).
However, name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a "maverick".

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
However, 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.

However, 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 and
next in line behind a man in his eighth decade of life.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising
2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real
Christian.

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

However, 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.


OK, much clearer now.



Sonya R. Paulk
Administrative Assistant to the Dean
University of South Carolina
School of Law
701 S. Main Street, Suite 202
Columbia, South Carolina 29208

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