Presidential and Vice-Presidential Choices

I've been hearing a lot of negative barbs thrown around the last few weeks. Accusations from McBush that Obama Barack does not have the kind of values and character to be President of the United States. We are told that that this election isn't about issues, it's about character; and supposedly Baracks lack of one. Now, 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, and it's the quintessential
American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic "Muslim."

Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and 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 very successful community organizer,
become 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, and cook caribou/grizzly/wolf stew, 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 two 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 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.

Sorry McSame and all of you narrow minded, cross carrying Republicans who back a candidate that is so out of touch with the problems of Americans that he can't remember how many homes he has or which of his 13 cards he has to fill up with gas. The same guy who can't stop talking about being a POW for five years during the Vietnam War and believes his military service and ability to fly a jet are the pre-requisites to being Commander and Chief of the United States. The same guy who spends his time time deriding Obama when he himself has about as many ideas as an empty can of Sprite.

Do we want another eight years of Bush/Cheny/Rove politics that rewards the rich and connected and leaves the poor and middle class outside to rot?

Thanks, but no thanks.