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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Why I Love Email II - featuring Sarah Palin

This in yesterday:

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 Bristol, 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.

* 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 laywer 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, much clearer now.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did you write the Palin-Obama post? I wasn't sure if you'd received it as an email or if you put it together based on emails you had received. Anyway, I forwarded it to a friend who is writing articles for that Huffington Post "Off The Bus" and her reaction was,and I copy/paste-

"Carol, you should submit that to HuffPost's Off the Bus! It's fanfuckingtastic!"

So I let her know those were not my words, just sharing them :)

Just thought I'd pass that along in case you have any journalistic tendencies !

Carol

Zen of Writing said...

Not my words either, alas.

Zany said...

This is amazing.

Why aren't the Dems talking about this stuff?

Zany said...

This is so amazing, and scary.

Why aren't the Dems not talking about this stuff in the media?!

Anonymous said...

Wow, I chuckled enough I spit tea on my keyboard. Nice!

I've been collecting Election 2008 bits like this - mind if I link to this post?

http://nocowardsoul.blogspot.com