[Vision2020] Fw: Seen This One?
Sue Hovey
suehovey at moscow.com
Tue Sep 16 13:32:59 PDT 2008
Well, there are those who would say the U of I isn't a small college, but on the other hand......
Sue H.
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From: Rosilyn Gates
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Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:34 AM
Subject: Fw: Seen This One?
Sent from a friend. Yeah, this makes sense..
> 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 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 laywer 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.
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense"
~ Tom Clancy
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