Serendipity 2009

I’m not a very political animal as some of my friends are but lest we not forget some of the things that John McCain did just a few year ago. It has not been discussed yet, but now maybe it will be. This will be the ONLY post I’ll place here on politics.

Remember this?

John McCain was officially reprimanded by the US Senate for taking undisclosed donations and gifts from savings and loan swindler Charlie Keating. McCain took $100G in cash, vacations at Keating’s Bahamas’ estate and trips on Keating’s private jet. Wife Cindy McCain’s Dad was Charlie Keating’s partner in a large phoenix shopping center and several large tracts of land that were being developed for housing tracts when Keating’s house of cards empire collapsed and left taxpayers paying $2.6 BILLION to bank account holders. The Keating’s must be rolling on the floor laughing at big banks when they hear McCain yell about riding his white horse to Washington so he can punish greedy bankers and stock swindlers.

Then, someone sent me this yesterday.

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 moose burgers: 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 (sports caster), 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with 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 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 DUI 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.