Candidate Confusion - Substantiated

As a Unitarian, I am always skeptical.  That said, I decided to research the facts of the "Candidate Confusion" item.  Surprisingly, I found that nearly everything was dead-on accurate (First Dude???).  I have included the urls to websites that substantiate each of the comments.  Some of the urls are quite long, and may appear to be broken.  If a link doesn't work, try pasting it directly into your browser.

I purposely tried to find information from a variety of sources and from fairly well-known sources.  Here-say about here-say has no value.

Hope this is interesting to you!  Jan

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."
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/29/1263966-obama-visits-grandfathers-kansas-town

* Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/30/johnmccain.palin

* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/06/was_obama_a_muslim.html

* Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republican_race/2008/08/30/2008-08-30_whats_in_the_palin_childrens_names_fish_.html

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i12/12a02402.htm

* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well rounded.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/ats-ap-cvn-palin-educationsep04,0,3284051.story

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11257.html
http://www.utne.com/Politics/2008-09-08/Obama-the-Organizer.aspx?blogid=30

* create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3741/expand_the_vote/

* spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor,
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/was_barack_obama_really_a_constitutional_law.html
 

* spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama


* become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee,
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/20/america/abortion.php


* 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.
http://obama.senate.gov/votes/

* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a own with less than 7,000 people,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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

* 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.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1835686,00.html

* 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.
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/02/did-john-mccain-cheat-on-his-wife-again.html


* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
http://glassbooth.org/explore/index/barack-obama/11/abortion-and-birth-control/16/

* 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.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-73417
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-on-abortion-id-oppo_n_122924.html

* 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.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1835686,00.html

* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1837536-3,00.html

with at least one DWI conviction
http://www.dui.com/dui-library/alaska/news/todd-palin-alaska-dwi-twenty-years-ago

and no college education,
http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/story/8924080p-8824177c.html


who didn't register to vote until age 25and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092102546.html?nav=rss_politics

OK, much clearer now.