The Spin...

THE SPIN:

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 kids Trig and 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,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, 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 for 19 years with whom you are
raising two beautiful daughters 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.