Curious. When friends cease being friends over something religious or political, it’s usually one friend who continues to push the issue when the other would rather let it go and get along. Did your friends push the issue, or did you?
I guess I pushed the issue in a way.
The woman is not stupid. I was not going to let it rest until that was the final word and the final verdict.
Actually, I lost my best friend....of course she is a retired black school teacher.
It seems she got mortally offended when I called Obama a progressive/socialist/communist.
(and then I included the word “anti-christ” in there somewhere)
;-)
I pushed the issue....so I am guilty
Usually, but not always. I've lost friends and even some family members because I'm a conservative, something considered unforgivable when you're a black man. I never 'pushed' anything. I just refused to have my views dictated to me as if I were an intellectual slave and questioned the qualifications of one B. Hussein Obama.
Most of the time though, it's for some MSM repeated mantra
and I'm all done suffering fools!
It is idiots like this who are resposible for the socialist mulatto who is presently defiling our White House and the office of the Presidency. I don't have the time in my life to devote to people who are close and have some political knowledge and common sense as it is.
Nam Vet
When I learn that someone is a Democrat I instantly know that we do not share the same values, and I don't have a need to have them in my life.
From the quote below, it sounds like the latter:
"I have lost THREE real life friends now in trying to defend Sarah Palin. On one hand I tend to think the people who call her stupid are not the kind of people I even want as friends anyhow. However, I wonder if im being too harsh and going too far." ..... se_ohio_young_conservative
Once you "go too far" and push aside "real life friends" over a politician, you really have to get your priorities in order.
Sarah Palin may not be "stupid" but let's just say that it is obvious that she got a public school high school education in a town where academics was not stressed and two of her four colleges in four years, North Idaho College and Matanuska–Susitna College, offered only Associates Degrees. Her sub-standard education shows and her fund of knowledge is rather shallow.:
Yes, Sarah Palin can dish out the talking points that conservatives want to hear. So can everybody on Free Republic.
Be that as it may, anybody that can't automatically rattle off a coherent explanation of the political dynamics at end of World War II that left Manchuria and the Korean peninsula north of the 38th parallel under Soviet occupation has no historical grasp of the world that we live in as is as unqualified to be President of the United States as Barack Obama currently is.
Correct, making friends requires two people, ending a friendship requires just one.
Did your friends push the issue, or did you?
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Actually, I did not push, and the liberals didn’t push me. I simply walked away from the friendship.
The 2000 Florida recount did it for me. It was then that I realized the Democrats were really vicious Marxists. They would literally do anything to gain power. At that point I realized that liberals ( who are really Marxists) were too stupid or too evil to have as friends.