Clearing up what it means to be Presidential...

[Atman]

I just saw this on another board, but apparently it's not original. Still, it bears re-posting, because I hadn't seen it, which means many others didn't, either. So...

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Just to clear things up - 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: 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 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 good moral 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 your 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.....


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[Kerrytravelers]

1. I love this! It's from That Minority Thing.

http://www.thatminoritything.com/

On edit:

More specifically, read this link: http://www.thatminoritything.com/index.php?cat=5

[LWolf]

2. DU taught me, over the last 6 years, that "presidential"

means tall, means good at eloquently saying little at great length, means never being blunt, upfront, or taking a stand, means features and voice must be media friendly, means wealthy, means attended an ivy league school, probably funded by family, means "plays well on main street," means male.

[GoesTo11]

3. Presidential is appreciating the gravity of the office

Obama - more presidential than any candidate in my lifetime. I would have said Bush Sr., but he had his taxes pledge, Willie Horton and pork rinds, treating elections as a game. Obama, on the other hand, understands the sacred trust that Democracy puts in its leaders.