Reposted email from Mugsy

My friend Mugsy, who is on an email list with me, wrote the following. It hits the nail on the head.

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."
* Grow 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 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 
good 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 the USA , your family is extremely admirable.

OK, that makes LOADS of sense.