The following has been making the e-mail forwarding rounds, so I can’t attribute its source:

If you’re a minority and you’re selected for a job over more qualified
candidates you’re a “token hire.”
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.”

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, becoming 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, sponsoring 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 and 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, then 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 .

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 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 , 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, 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 with whom
you’ve been wed to for 19 years and raising 2 beautiful daughters
with, 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 kill an endangered species, you’re an excellent hunter.
If you have an abortion you’re not a Christian, you’re a murderer (
forget about if it happen while being date raped…)

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.

If you’re a Republican senator who solicits gay sex in an airport
bathroom, you get to return to your job in the Senate and are
encouraged to run for re-election.
If you’re a Democratic Senator who is out of public office and have
an affair, your political career is over and your wife who has
terminal cancer is to blame.