*If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.'
-- Barack himself is the one who plays up his differences most of all, in order to score sympathy points and to label his detractors as prejudiced.
*Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.
-- Don't knock it till you've tried it.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
-- Take that up with the New Yorker. Most of us neocons don't like his friendships with domestic terrorists.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
-- No, you're a Barracuda.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
-- No one said any such thing. However, Bush is an Ivy League gradutate, too. And the left paints him as an idiot.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
-- Is transfering schools supposed to reflect poorly on someone? Because an awful lot of people transfer for an awful lot of reasons.
* 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.
-- "1st Blacks" are amazing people, I agree. Tell me, why does the left hate Clarence and Condi, again? And they weren't to fond of Colin, either. Do I need to go into exhaustive detail of their careers?
-- Legislators are not executives. Community organizers are not executives. Committee chairs (<-- read "political appointees") are not executives.
-- He didn't really spend 4 years in the Senate, he spent 1 year in the Senate. He's been on the campaign trail the rest of the time. But I'll tell you what, I'll give you those 4. McCain has over 20. For those of you who've forgotten 1st Grade numbers: 20 > 4.
* 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.
-- 6 years mayor + 2 years governor = 8 years as an EXECUTIVE. 8 more years than Obama. In addition to her 4 years as a legistator, thanks for reminding me.
-- Are you forgetting McCain is running for President?
-- You left off "basketball star" and "beauty queen."
* 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.
-- And who's been seriously saying this?
* 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.
-- And how do you become uniquely qualified to speak on McCain's faith and personal life?
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
-- "Age appropriate" is the key phrase here, Dr. Elders.
-- But more so than the sex ed, we're REALLY concerned about his vote on the Born Alive Act. "Moral fiber of society" does come into play here, I would think.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's=20 school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.
-- No other option? Are condoms against the law in Alaska? News to me.
* 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.
-- We can't help it if she puts her foot in her mouth. If she scales back on her ludicrous comments, she may not take quite so much flak for them. Honest Injun.
* If you're 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.
-- The distortions on Todd Palin's past aside, he isn't admired for what went on in his past. If we wanted to hammer people for their past, Obama snorted lines and Ted Kennedy killed a girl. Todd Palin is admired for being a hard-working, child-raising, snowmobile-racing, blue-collar salt-of-the-earth type man... TODAY.
