I Get the Best Emails - Ongoing

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."

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, 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 Veterans' 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.

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 (even
if it happened 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.


And finally:

Quiz question for the RNC, specifically those on the Religious Right.

Who is one of the most revered, and famous community organizers in history?

JESUS "I HEELED A DOG AND CURED A HAM" CHRIST

h/t Becky