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Posted on 11 September 2008 by Denis Campbell

 

Finally, an intelligent, fight-back e-mail against the hundreds of smears…

-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 your 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 President of the Harvard Law Review,
  • create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African American 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, 
  • become 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, 
  • sponsor 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
  • 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, 

 

-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 Annapolis, ranked fifth from the bottom in your class 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 and governor of a state of less than 1 million 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 for 19-years with whom you are raising 2 beautiful daughters 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 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. 

Any questions?

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Denis Campbell is the American Editor of UK Progressive. He is a political and business pundit contributor to both BBC television and radio. Denis specializes in translating the American electoral and governing process for UK and EU audiences and vice versa, contributing regularly on UK elections and issues to the Huffington Post. He has contributed to newspapers and magazines around the globe. In his “spare” time, he is managing director of Target Point Ltd focused on social media, communication strategy, leveraging technology, corporate change and building world class selling organisations. Denis has lived in the EU since 1998.
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