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and I know it, but it's something you have to do with some family members with whom you just must live.
See the email?
Delete it.
I know. It isn't the way you think about it when you're passionate about something, and it feels wrong. Doesn't matter. Responding by email won't do the thing you need to get done, and it won't happen in three weeks, anyway. But this is abut him, not you That shell he has was built up over a lifetime and made resistant to sense. A lifetime. A lifetime of thinking liberals are....well, what did Matthews tapdance Michelle Bachman into damn near saying?
We're not American. And without knowing any better, Obama is, how do I say this obliquely? Not his kind of American, probably, even if he wasn't a Democrat? He isn't thinking logically, or he'd know, pretty much without a doubt, that if there was something entirely bad, gross, disqualifying about the man, people would have picked up on it right away and said "No sale." He shouldn't have made it out of the primaries if there was something crazy, radical and wrong with him. Not anything he's saying is actually Communist--to your stepfather, "Communist" is just a bad word. It's just "Pinko" or "Douche" to him--and has nothing to do with Stalin or Lenin, or Marx. Or ideology or ideas even. It just means he's preconditioned to not like him-if Obama's the liberal...he doesn't like him. Ergo--Commie. History degree aside, I have found that people will forget their education as fast as they "lose their religion" (in the figurative, colloquial sense) when it comes to their cherished notions being challenged.
So step back from the dialogue.
A nice touch is saying "May the best man win." And he can still believe it's his guy. And you can still know it's yours. And then you don't take it out on him, he isn't disrespecting you, and you can have a tolerable Christmas.
And for a present--what size Obama t-shirt do you reckon he'd fit? :evilgrin:
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