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Beeblebrox
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Joined: Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:40 pm
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 Different rules for different folks Got this in my inbox. Thought it was pretty funny.
If you're a minority and you're selected for a job
> over more qualified candidates you're a "token hire."
> If you're a conservative and you're selected for a
> job over more qualified candidates you're a "game changer."
>
> Black teen pregnancies? A "crisis" in black America.
> White teen pregnancies? A "blessed event."
>
> If you grow up in Hawaii you're "exotic."
> Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential "American story."
>
> Similarly, if you name you kid Barack you're "unpatriotic."
> Name your kid Track, you're "colorful."
>
> If you're a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you're "reckless."
> A Republican who doesn't fully vet is a "maverick."
>
> If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from
> $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black Presidentof the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive
> that registers 150,000 new African Amerian voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, then spend nearly 8
> more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state
> Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a
> state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works
> and Veteran's Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced.
>
>
> If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20
> months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you've got the most executive experience of anyone on
> either ticket, are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military and are well qualified to lead the nation should
> you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia.
>
>
> If you are a Democratic male candidate who is popular with millions of people you are an "arrogant celebrity".
> If you are a popular Republican female candidate you are "energizing the base".
>
> If you are a younger male candidate who thinks for himself and makes his own decisions you are "presumptuous".
> If you are an older male candidate who makes last minute decisions you refuse to explain, you are a "shoot from
> the hip" maverick.
>
> If you are a candidate with a Harvard law degree you are "an elitist-out of touch" with the real America.
> if you are a legacy (dad and granddad were admirals) graduate of Anapolis, with multiple disciplinary infractions
> you are a hero.
>
> If you manage a multi-million dollar nationwide campaign, you are an "empty suit".
> If you are a part time mayor of a town of 7000 people, you are an "experienced executive".
>
> If you go to a south side Chicago church, your beliefs are "extremist".
> If you believe in creationism and don't believe global warming is man made, you are "strongly principled".
>
> 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 have been married to the same woman with whom you've been wed to for 19 years and raising 2 beautiful
> daughters with, you're "risky".
>
> If you're a black single mother of 4 who waits for 22 hours after her water breaks to seek medical attention,
> you're an irresponsible parent, endangering the life of your unborn child.
> But if you're a white married mother who waits 22 hours, you're spunky.
>
> If you're a 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton, the right-wing press calls you "First dog."
> If you're a 17-year old pregnant unwed daughter of a Republican, the right-wing press calls you
> "beautiful" and "courageous."
>
> If you kill an endangered species, you're an excellent hunter.
> If you have an abortion your not a christian, you're a murderer
> ( forget about if it happen while being date raped.)
>
> If you teach abstinence only in sex education, you get teen parents.
> If you teach responsible age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding
> the fiber of society.
>
> If you're a Republican senator who solicits gay sex in an airport bathroom, you get to return to your job in the
> Senate and are encouraged to run for re-election.
> If you're a Democratic Senator who is out of public office and have an affair, your political career is over and
> your wife who has terminal cancer is to blame.
>
> Funny how stories can be spun different ways, isn't it?
> Actually it's not funny at all.
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