As for ties to "terrorists," on the bright side maybe this is an improvement over being the antichrist?
DC
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:37 PM, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In a sad reminder that I am from a solidly red state family (split between
> Tennessee and Texas), my mom and aunt had a massive falling out because my
> mom does not like Sarah Palin, while my aunt loves Plain as much as she
> loved Pvt. Jessica Lynch a few years back. Both mom and aunt live in Dallas.
>
> My aunt, in fact, became so furious about my mom disliking Sarah Palin that
> she told my mom to never call her again. That's right -- it's not like my
> mom slept with my aunt's husband or some really truly up family drama of
> that caliber had occured -- it's simply that my mom dislikes Palin. So my
> family implodes.
>
> My Palin'-loving aunt repeated the stuff about Obama having close
> connections to "terrorists" (she mentioned Ayers, whose "link" to Obama is
> getting a lot of airplay on FOX and was on front page of today's NYT), but
> she also conteds, depressingly, that the subprime crisis was caused by
> Clinton (as all evil in the world is) and that the Dems led the charge in
> creating the current financial crisis by trying out socialism on minorities
> and folks ho couldn't afford homes. She repeats the Hannity-style talking
> points right down the light and gets very upset if you seem you are
> challenging them
>
> She slammed down the phone on my mom at the end. Jst a day in the life of
> Red State America. Is it sexist to call Palin a "home wrecker" because of
> this? Just kidding. My aunt is the one who needs to get a grip.
>
> -B.
>
>
> Shane Mage wrote:
>
> "Obama needs no defense, least of all from radicals. This nonsense is just
> a female pit bull acting like a pit bull b.... Can McNothing really be that
> desperate already? Does he really want the Alaska Independence Party to
> become a campaign issue?"
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