Comparing biographies: Obama and Palin

So, I received this in an email the other day. Quite interesting. Let me know what you think.

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Ok, so let me get this clear...

·If you grow up in Hawaii, are raised by your grandparents, you're  "exotic, different."
·Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're 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 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 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 first 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 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.

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Albeit, I know this compares Obama and Palin, not Obama and McCain. The interesting thing about this though, is that Palin has become the "rockstar" of the Republican party. So much for ridiculing Obama about his "celebrity" status. And really, if anyone has seen Palin's recent interview with Katie Couric...hmm. Yes, Biden has had his gaffes too. But on issues dealing with Russia - exactly, what was the point in Palin saying she can see Russia from her house? - and not being able to give an example of McCain's past record to regulate, instead of deregulate Wall Street?

Seriously, much clearer now.

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