Now, as a stranger in a foreign land, with a tendency to verbose pomposity (i.e. "pompous windbag"), I just wondered on something. I am sure the more erudite among the xenophobic Republicans (if there are any...LOL) can answer the following for me as I am a little confused, floundering here in my undereducated liberality. Let me see if I have this straight.....
* If your name is Barack, you're accused (incorrectly) of being a radical, unpatriotic Muslim
BUT name your (3 too many) kids , Bristol, Willow, Trig, Piper and Track (some of them are destined to be beaten up in school with THOSE names!!), and you're a maverick.
* If you graduate from Harvard Law School and were President of the Law Review, you are "unstable"
BUT if you attend 5 different small and totally insignificant colleges before graduating, then you are "well grounded".
* If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, 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,
BUT if your total resume is: local weather girl, beauty contestant, 4 years on the city council of a place no one has ever heard of 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 (although you can see Russia on a clear day...which is nice), 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
BUT if you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married said heiress the next month, you're a
real Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fibre of society
BUT 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
BUT if your husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DUI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25, once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, and whose only claim to somewhat minor fame is that he won a few snowmobile races (!) then your family is extremely admirable.
Obviously, as a poor, undereducated foreigner, and an unfamiliarity with your superior political system (THAT is sarcasm...
), I now think I understand how it works...it is SO much clearer to me now. I just wish someone had explained the rules to me before !