Reply #22: Thank You Weezy - I am proud to be your new friend

[nels25]

I have personal experience with bitterness and hate and I am here to tell you it can eat you alive, it can invade your soul, and it can in some cases kill you (and believe me I know where of I speak, but I do not believe this is the proper forum to explain).

I have gotten help and I can state without qualm that being calm and rational (not to say that some posters are not) makes for a superior life.

Also I grew up in a Democrat filled city and neighborhood, and then joined the USN.

Believe me it is extremely easy to become very conservative in the armed forces.

It took me almost 10 years to shake it.

I am to some degree a reformed Republican (the last one I voted for was Bush one in 88 while I was still on active duty) I have so very many friends (many from my USN days) who have supported the GOP in the past (I have never believed that the term Neo-con would apply to them) and see the nation today as completely screwed up and want to support the Democrats (and believe or not to a large degree Obama) but when they go to read on progressive sites they fell insulted.

None of my friends are or have ever been Nazi's fascist or some of the other garbage that is flung around with no discretion.

Because they are my friends I hope/believe that I can persuade most of them to vote for Barack instead of McCain.

But could we please lay off the hate.