IS THIS SEXIST OR RACIST?*

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, 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 “who wants to ban books from your local library.”

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded or are you male professor shopping?(Beauty queens have done worst things!)

* 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, and spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, (As opposed to a small town mayor running a homogeneous little town) 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—you’re not qualified to be President

* 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 and ready to assume the commander-in-chief role.

* 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 believe that creationism is the key to man’s history—and not evolution, you’re a good Christian*If you believe that God has called our nation to defeat evil Islam, you’re a good Christian.

* 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 SP were black, what would the republicans say about that!)

*If you believe that it’s ok for you to use “lipstick” jokes, but when Barack compares what he’s for vs McCain and the says you can “put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” then he’s being disrespectful of you—you the very person who used lipstick.

*—now let’s take a look at the other maverick:

*Why do you say “lipstick on a pig” is sexist when your former press secretary wrote the book entitled “lipstick on a Pig,”??? You yourself, Senator McCain, has repeatedly used the very words to describe Senator Hillary Clinton’s proposed health plan!

*If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, who you picked up in a bar, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

*But if you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

* 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 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.

**My cousin sent this to me. I modified it somewhat.

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©All Rights Reserved. Reproduction is permitted provided credit is given. Lenton Aikins, Ph.D., J.D. Dr. Aikins has traveled widely, lived abroad in Europe and Latin America, recently spending three years in Costa Rica as Director of a Spanish Language school. He holds a Ph. D. in Political Science from University of Southern California, a Juris Doctor in Law from Western State University, College of Law. He is the author of many articles and of While African Americans Slept: Leadership by Parasites, now available at: http://zitpub.com, and available in all bookstores July 1, 2008. To read his blog, Dr. Aikins Political Commentary, go to: http://lentonaikins.com and click on blog.