Posted on 11/20/2012 1:10:36 PM PST by albie
Never give animals the oppurtunity.
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You could always invite them over to visit while making crystal clear to them (not her) that you are only doing it as a concession to your regard for her. I see lots of talk about family, but I don’t think “family” votes to use the state to steal your wealth and liberty.
“However, I’ve made it clear that I can not tolerate Obama voters in my house.”
They can meet her out in the front yard, the barn, or a handy tool shed. Perhaps a car port. Sophistry, but it allows you to keep your word and still act in an accommodating way towards the Bolshevists.
You done good livius,you done good.
Hypothetical: You’re a 20-something conservative. You want to visit your 89-year-old grandmother, whom you love even though she’s a liberal. Alas, she’s spending the holiday at the home of your uncle or stepfather, who’s a diehard leftist and who refuses to allow into his house anyone who didn’t vote for Obama.
Would this experience cause you, as a young conservative, to see the error of your ways, and realize that there were bad consequences to your conservatism, and have a conversion? Would you ask the family liberals where you can send a donation to help re-elect Al Franken?
Or would you just think that the Obama partisan was being a jerk?
Most of us would go with “jerk.” You should figure that, with the shoe on the other foot, the grandkids would answer the same way. You can believe that the country is in mortal danger and yet also believe that excluding these relatives from your house would do no practical good whatsoever.
Now that I think about it, my own grandfather was accused of being a communist and was reported to the HUAC and was investigated by the FBI for years. It was all a lie, though. It was the CIO that reported him.
My grandfather had been elected the first president of the Electrical Workers and Machinists at RCA and the CIO officials were not pleased. They tried to get him moved to management so that he couldn’t serve, but my grandfather refused. So, he was run down by a hit and run driver before he could take office, but he didn’t die.
RCA responded by closing the plant and moving to Indiana and the people of Camden County responded by electing my grandfather to the NJ State Assembly. He only served one term before the CIO accused him of being a communist. It was a particularly serious charge because my grandfather was the model maker for RCA and had a top security clearance. It just about ruined his life. I bet if he had been a communist, he would have been the only communist that was also an elder of the Methodist Church.
My wife is a Democrat. We manage to get along just fine. I don’t tell her how to vote, she doesn’t tell me how to vote, we agree to disagree about the things we disagree on and we always remember that at the end of the day our marriage means more to us then our politics.
Everybody is different I guess. Me, I think family is more important then politics. As somebody else on this thread pointed out, in a few years Obama will be ancient history, but your family will always be your family.
With due respect, this is not merely politics. If you think that is the case, you do not understand what is going on at all. If you think Obama will ever be ancient history, you do not know what is going on. I can only assume you have a job or an income stream that is temporarily immune to the destruction.
When an Obama Care bureaucrat pulls the plug on you, I wonder what you will think “politics” is about then?
I didn’t say everything was fine and dandy, and I’m painfully aware of the consequences of elections.
People can be civil for one day. I will be civil when I go to my MIL’s house for Thanksgiving with my idiot liberal brother-in-law. If I refuse to go, the state of the country will not change one iota and my MIL will be the one hurt. I choose not to do that to her.
A similar thing happened to some of my ancestors, WF. In my own family it’s my two liberal children who give me heartache and grief. Good thing they live far enough away to keep the peace. They literally shun me because I am a Christian conservative. I haven’t seen that son for 11 years. He does not communicate with me at all. The girl usually comes once a year around Christmas for a couple of days. It is difficult for me to keep my tongue during that time. It is so uncomfortable, I’m relieved when she goes back home.
Barry Mannilono?
Remember what Jesus said to his disciples when they told him his mother and brothers were outside asking for him? "Who is my mother and my brothers? Is it not those who do the will of God?"
That hurts. Just goes to illustrate the moral and ethical bankruptcy of those afflicted with the disease of liberalosis. I'm sorry for your loss of communication with your son, but I'm even more sorry for him. He's chosen to stick a poison needle in his arm, and has intentionally infected himself with a lethal mindset.
I have close family members who've done the same, and all I can do is remember them as they once were. I don't even know the people they've become.
My parents are both eighty, and have supported (and driven) the extended family decision to expel the Obama supporters. This family will not socialize with Obama suppoerters, will not do personal business with Obama supporters, and will minimally cooperate with them in the workplace. Maybe share the Gospel if the Holy Spirit is working on such individuals. But then HS would have to work on hardened hearts that have given God the middle finger.
I’d say that arguing over petty politics is the reason that many of spend the holidays bitter and alone.
You said exactly what I have said a thousand times. I love the children that I raised, but I don't know where they went. I can sort of understand the girl because she spent her youth in college and then became a professor. The son, has no excuse except he hangs around with artsy people.
I am not questioning your decision - but I am flat out saying your words are breathtaking. You bithely dismiss all of this as “politics” and that the “election is over.” This was not an election, and it is not over.
I hate to tell you, elections are NEVER over to liberals. To call all of this merely “politics” is to miss it completely.
My wife is spending the three days prior to Christmas with her family. I’m staying home.
I won’t waste my time or energy on Obama voters. My wife understands and I couldn’t care less what her family thinks.
Treat them the way they think. After they fill their plates and sit down, confiscate half the food and tell them you are donating it to the homeless.
If they complain, tell them they are greedy evil bastards that don’t want to pay their fair share.
Buy or rent tents for them to stay in outside the house and call it “Occupy My Lawn” and inform them if they complain they are nothing but 1% greedy evil bastards that hate the poor and want college kids to have to pay back their school loans.
Put a TAX on everything in the house they’ll use like toilet paper and ice and water, etc. Tell them you run a “progressive house”.
If they whine, call them evil Republicans.
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I love it!! Thanks for bringing a smile to my face.
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