I think what you are doing for your uncle is a selfless act of love—regardless of the closeness of the relationship. From your description of him, he is not like the Obama Phone woman or the women who lined up waiting for money from Obama’s Stash.
Yeah, he voted dumb. But the circumstances out weigh his vote. I’d continue with what you’ve always done unless the economy, or until the economy, makes it impossible.
PS: Am attending Thanksgiving with my father and his wife & her grown children. All are libs including my father—the three sons of my stepmother’s are white trash Obama voters—Obama phone owners. One word to dig or gloat or throw my values in my face, and I’m out of there. And this is my father’s house. See you don’t have it worse than some of us.
On a related subject, I told my away at college son he owes me $68 in bus fare today because of how he voted. Am I being vindictive?
A little info, I gave him a request for an early ballot which he never filled out. So I paid for him to take the Greyhound bus home so he could vote on Sunday. (I also took him out to two nice dinners while he was home, I am not billing him for those). Yesterday he texts me this:
“I voted for Gary Johnson, because finance for third parties directly correlates to proportion of votes, and I’m a secular libertarian”.
I am not someone who supports voting for third parties, so if he wants to do that, he should do it on his own libertarian dime not mine. Ultimately, he will only be giving me back the $68 out of the money I give him to live on this semester, but it’s the point of the matter. He can vote how he likes, of course, but he can pay for the bus fare out of the money he has to live on not the money I have to live on.
Vindictive? Petty?
“Nobility beats hostility every time . . .” Nice sentiment, but look where that got us today. Sometimes nobility needs to give way to hostility (are you listening, Mitt?). Do you have any other contact with him other than sending him a monthly check? Is he “family” or just a relative? Are you sending it out of kindness or guilt?
And, navymom1, I feel your pain. Everyone on my wife’s side of the family is a big lib. My SIL thinks BO is cute, handsome and even sexy. They are in Oregon....and one of the reasons we are in Texas.
“Nobility beats hostility every time . . .” Nice sentiment, but look where that got us today. Sometimes nobility needs to give way to hostility (are you listening, Mitt?). Do you have any other contact with him other than sending him a monthly check? Is he “family” or just a relative? Are you sending it out of kindness or guilt?
And, navymom1, I feel your pain. Everyone on my wife’s side of the family is a big lib. My SIL thinks BO is cute, handsome and even sexy. They are in Oregon....and one of the reasons we are in Texas.