If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're exotic, different. However, if you grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers; you're a quintessential American story. If your name is Barack Husseim Obama, you are labeled a radical, unpatriotic "Muslim", even though you are a confessed Christian. If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track; you're a "Maverick", but graduate from Harvard Law School and you are considered unstable, elitist. Attend 5 different, small colleges before graduating and you're considered, "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. On the other hand, if your total resume boast of your career as the local weather girl, 4 years on the city council, 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, and 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive and next in line behind a man in his eighth decade of life.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant Churches, you're not considered a real Christian. However, if you cheat on your first wife with a rich heiress, then leave your disfigured wife to marry the rich heiress only one month after your divorce, you're a ‘true Christian’.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate, sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. However, if you are the governor and advocate “abstinence only”, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system, and your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you are very viewed as a responsible, well informed parent.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who relinquished a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave up the dream to raise a family, suggest that your family values don't represent America's? However, if your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction, no college education, didn't register to vote until the age of 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely in touch with American principles.

OK, much clearer!!! Now it all makes sense!!!

First of all, let me congratulate all the women represented by the inspirational speech given by "First Lady", Michele Obama. This women/family is awesome! With that being said, has anyone noticed how busy Bush/McCain have been since Barack Obama became the presidential nominee?

Bush has approved oil drilling; in addition to talks with Iraq to withdraw troops by 2011 (Obama suggests 2010). Then we have McCain’s stern, but ignored rebuke of Russian occupation in Georgia. Further, on the night before the Dem convention, Bush sends VP Cheney to Georgia to address the Russian occupation issue.