Live Free or Die

[scbutler]

Just got into my first altercation over our Obama bumper sticker up here in NH. 40ish white guy on a motorcycle asks me if I'm a teacher as I head for the car in the post office parking lot. (Because of course any 50ish white guy with an Obama sticker has to work in the public sector, and I don't look like a cop.) I tell him, no, and he calls me a

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[asakiyume]

Thanks for sticking up for Obama. You answered that guy bravely.

[scbutler]

Nah. It's just testosterone.

[elven_wolf]

Just goes to show, you can't fix stupid.

[scbutler]

Truly.

[barbarienne]

I think I would have just ignored him. Years of the NYC subway have instilled a "do not engage with the crazy people" reflex.

[scbutler]

I wouldn't have ignored hin in NYC either, and I'm a native.

[sartorias]

He's an idiot.

[scbutler]

Agreed. And not alone in his idiocy, either, I'm afraid.

[cucumberseed]

We've moved into road-rage territory down here in CT. Two incidents already. I had forgotten what it was like.

[scbutler]

It's going to be an ugly election. The Republicans have been denying the legitimacy of elected Democrats for the last twenty years has given their rank and file an unbelievable sense of entitlement. It's white males like me that are discriminated against these days, right?

[cucumberseed]

Yeah. Ugly is the right word for it.