If you tighten this up a little I am sure some editor at any good newspaper would print it. Hell, send it as is to the Memphis Flyer. I think it makes good and specific points.
stemcell On Sep 20, 3:53 pm, ornamentalmind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > 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 > Christi an. > > 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, much clearer now. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
