After asking a neighbor of mine if he'd noticed any suspicious
activity at my place a few weeks ago, and having dealt with the matter
at hand sufficiently, we moved onto other matters. For example, he
was very interested in how I felt about the current political
situation. This is an area of almost exclusively conservative
Republicans, retired military, fire, and police, and he was no
exception. When I told him I was leaning toward sup****ting Obama and
thought he was going to win in November, my neighbor just about had a
cow. Right off the bat, he started in with the Reverend Wright, what
a vile racist the guy was, and that there was no way Obama could be
any different because he'd been one of his pari****oners for twenty
years. My response was that I'm not going to be voting for Reverend
Wright and that his views or the reasons he holds them don't concern
me. I had to listen to this guy give me the rightwing line over and
over and over again for the next hour. He simply could not move
beyond how tainted Obama was by his pastor. Finally, he concluded
that although McCain is a bad candidate, he represented the "lesser of
two evils." That line, as well, was repeated endlessly. We never got
around to discussing why Obama was so evil, other than the fact that
he was "a muslim from Indonesia (the muslim capital of the world)
until he was ten years old and they never get over that."
Nonetheless, my neighbor was convinced that he is the antithesis of
all that is good and pure in the world. Despite this, he agreed with
me that doctors and dentists are a bunch of crooks and we need to do
something about it, and that Bush is incompetent and probably
corrupt. He thought the Clintons were a couple of terrible liars,
too. But Obama still was an abomination to him. I tried to tell the
guy I've heard his argument about a hundred times and never bought it,
but people who don't post on these forums don't understand that. It
was an interesting exchange, in any case, because neither of us could
call the other guy any foul names.
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