Your Political Irony for the day...

If you grow up in Hawaii you’re “exotic.” Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you’re the quintessential “American story.”

Similarly, if you name your kid Barack you’re “unpatriotic.” Name your kid Trig, 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 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 candidate with a Harvard law degree you are “an elitist,” out of touch with the real America. If you are a legacy graduate of Annapolis, with multiple disciplinary infractions you are a “hero.”

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, you’re “risky.”

If you’re a black single mother of four who waits for 22 hours after her water breaks to seek medical attention, you’re “irresponsible,” endangering the life of your unborn child. But if you’re a white married mother who waits 22 hours, you’re “spunky.”

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.