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 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 and

next in line behind a man in his eighth decade.

* 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 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.

* 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 you're 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.