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Jan 16, 2009 12:57

My emailed copy of the Washington Post is a bit of a goldmine today.

Rural Residents Unsure They're Part of Obama's America. I have to admit, I have difficulty understanding the mindset of someone who would decide not to vote for a candidate because of his or her position on guns. Guns. I wouldn't decide on that issue, and I'm passionately pro- ( Read more... )

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eyelid January 16 2009, 16:14:11 UTC
the rural article was bizarre. First, even if guns are the center of the world for some people, there is no way Obama is going to take away their rifles. All D politicians know exactly how rural Americans feel about their guns. (And I have a cousin of my mom's who votes solely based on gun rights - despite the fact that she doesn't even own a gun. And has no health care, etc... Now that's bizarre). Obama has stated many times he's not going to curtail hunting or take away rifles or anything. At the most, I could see him signing off on a bill curtailing automatic weapons. Where people get the idea he's going to stop hunting, I am clueless.

this is even weirder:
Robert Serio, chairman of the local Democratic Party for 30 years, says Obama was viewed as too liberal in Monroe County. "We don't look at national Democrats as being family-oriented," says Serio, a lawyer. "The multicultural thing would be something we are opposed to. The homosexual question would have an impact."
"the multicultural thing"? Is he talking about ( ... )

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bronnyelsp January 16 2009, 17:20:41 UTC
Mugabe is being a bloody, vicious dictator and usurper.

Yeah, I was going for that terribly British talent of expressing how strongly you feel about something through extreme understatement, but being Canadian, I haven't quite got the hang of it yet. ;)

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rizardofoz January 16 2009, 22:15:56 UTC
Or when people apologize after I tell them I am from the States. :P

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ebourland January 17 2009, 02:06:21 UTC
I remember piping up in a bar in Alkmaar Holland that I was American, and every strapping Dutchman in the bar shouted: Bush! and I thought the jig was up.

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rizardofoz January 17 2009, 05:45:18 UTC
When I taught in Turkey, I could not evade the Bush comments for the life of me whenever I mentioned that, yes, my homeland is over on the other side of the ocean, and, yes, that place houses a man whose name rhymes with 'mush'. It even inched its way into almost every single class I taught! No escape. Anywhere.

I survived.

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