Posted on 11/20/2012 1:10:36 PM PST by albie
My 89 year old Mother in law (a conservative) is spending Thanksgiving with me and my family. My wife has requested that her looney left wing grandchildren be allowed to visit with "Granny" on Saturday. They voted Obama and are in their 20's and are actually very nice people. However, I've made it clear that I can not tolerate Obama voters in my house. Nice or not, family or otherwise. I'm still on the fence because I do love my Mother in law. What do you think? Also, are there others with similar problems?
and the “pleasant” they are is really just a super-thin skin-depth veneer. it can vanish very quickly. these will be the people coming after you if shtf.
You are 100 per cent right!
Did you see “Dirty Rotten Basterds” - the SS Colonel in the opening scene was “pleasant” too - right up until he ordered the famly machine gunned to death.
Thanks! I’ve got family and friends arriving tomorrow...including the liberal ones...
He’s a big guy...but I think even he knows not to cross his mom!
Welcome them and make them feel at home.
Recite a prayer at the Dinner Table and be sure to say, Thank you Lord Obama for this food that you stole from those Evil Rich White People, Amen.
After that, just start eating and make no additional comment.
Judas Priest would do as well.
(Tell them that you learned that Obamao likes these groups.)
Cannibal Corpse (death metal band) - Make Them Suffer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Hv0tsvpyU
Life is better with dogs, no doubt about it. One day I might feel like I’m worthy of such a gift, but not yet. Far from it and still working at it.
Respectfully as well, I disagree with you.
It is just politics. Elections come and go, sometimes they don’t go the way I hoped, but life goes on. The Sun keeps rising, the Earth keeps spinning and God has a plan.
I don’t pretend to know what that plan is, but I’m sure that everything that has happened in the last four years and everything that will happen in the next four years is part of it.
In four years there will be a new President. In the meantime the current President is already a lame duck facing a divided Congress with a hostile lower house.
I suspect the next two years (and probably the next four) will be characterized by gridlock, and frankly, gridlock may be just what the doctor ordered. After four more years of an underperforming economy and endless foreign wars, the nation might just be ready for some real hope and change.
As far as I’m concerned Romney and Obama might as well have been the same person. Six of one, a half dozen of the other.
Both of them promised more big government, a bigger police state, and more wars.
A pox upon both their houses.
But anyway, I’m digressing here. My point was that our fellow Americans, even those with whom we have profound disagreements, are not the enemy. It is the State that is the enemy, and if we do not wake up to that fact very soon it will devour us all.
Politics is important, and there is a time and a place for it. But we need to move past the election and look to the future. If conservatives want to win the next election, we need to win over hearts and minds. We aren’t going to do that by demonizing people merely because they happened to prefer the other guy.
Either ways, its late. Time to hit the rack. Happy Thanksgiving to your and your family, sir.
I submit you are very naive. I’ll let history take care of your rude awakening.
Oh, Gods plan? I agree. He has a plan. Sometimes His plan is a holocaust. Sometimes HIs plan is really terrible for those who have to live through it. His plan included the beaches of Normandy for some believers. Yes, He has a plan. And yes, His plan is perfect ultimately. But yes, His plan may be awful to live through.
He also has an ultimate plan for families, and that is, to dissolve them. In eternity, there will be no families. In His ultimate plan, what you deem so important, is not at all to Him.
FWIW, we’re talking about lunatic leftist FAMILY members.
I’m advocating erring on the side of tolerance for the family at holidays.
Otherwise, intolerant leftist pig bigots aren’t worth the time of day.
Leftist freak Ann Landers forever earned my scorn when she published a letter in early 2001 from some couple who could no longer bear to remain best friends with another couple who voted for Bush.
Ann Landers sympathized with them.
FU Hussein Heads!
I run into this all the time in my line of work. I do a lot of work in people’s homes, and often become quite friendly with them.
They can see I’m intelligent and knowledgeable, so the liberals immediately assume I am one too. Often go off on rants against Bush or conservatives. Doesn’t even cross their minds that I might not agree.
I never get into it with them, since I think that would be unprofessional. But I am amazed at the unthinking assumption that if a person is intelligent and well-read, then obviously he must be liberal.
I have not dismissed anything, I’m simply coming at it from a different perspective.
I believe God is in control and He has a plan. I don’t quite understand what He’s up to, but I trust Him. That allows me to move past all the negative emotions this election has wrought and get on with life.
That doesn’t mean we stop fighting. We’re in a war for the heart and soul of the nation, and we won’t win it by isolating ourselves from the other side.
But you HAVE dismissed everything, and you HAVE stopped fighting, and you ARE trying to justify your actions by bringing God into this as a crutch. Your different perspective has a name: naivete.
Yes, God is in control, but NO we are not released. When Paul was shipwrecked, was God in control? Yes. Did Paul pray? Yes. But did Paul swim like heck too? Yes. You have stopped swimming.
You do not know my heart, but you’re judging me. I have not stopped swimming, I’m just swimming in a different direction. You fight your way, I’ll fight mine.
End of conversation, you get the last word.
And here’s the last word: I am not judging your heart. I am judging your words, the logical conclusion they point, and perhaps your mind set. And the logical conclusion your words so clearly point out, is that you think of this as just another election, you think of this as merely “politics” - and something that is subrogated to any and all family issues, and your words certainly seem not to contemplate that this could be the end of our nation and all of your freedoms.
That is a correct judgement of your words. If that conflicts with the deeper feelings of your heart, I suggest you work on your wording.
I don't demonize people because they prefer the other GUY. I demonize them because they prefer the other WAY.
We're about to see our national debt surpass $20 trillion, not counting perhaps another $100 trillion in unfunded "entitlements". This money will be paid back by our grandchildren and their children. They will wonder how it was possible that their future was destroyed by people they never met.
In all likelihood, the school textbooks will blame capitalism and greed. Our grandchildren will wonder why there is no bread while there will be nobody with an incentive to create bread. It took the Russians over seventy years to recognize that their system didn't work. I don't think they have a decent replacement for it yet.
I am stunned at the number and intensity of responses on this thread.
It speaks volumes as to how divided the American people have become. I remember the Vietnam war era from my schoolage years and it was never THIS acrimonious between family members.
I’m now reminded of one of Lincoln’s most famous quotes, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
A lot of us would do well to ponder those words this Thanksgiving.
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