I think you have “nice” and “pleasant” mixed up. No one who voted for Obama is nice. They might be pleasant, but no way are they nice.
She may not live to see another Thanksgiving. Have the kids over and show them what “class” is.
I’m with you. I consider obama voters to be either idiots or traitors and I refuse to have any truck with either. They are not welcome in my house.
If they start bringing up the election, stop them and say “we’re not discussing politics today. If they persist, politely ask them to leave. Good Luck and enjoy the day!
your tolerance of their immaturity and kindness will do more to convince them of the rightness of your cause. Shunning them will have the opposite effect
20 year olds are all about fashion and group dynamics, so many stupidly mouth the Obama cliches without thinking. They may grow up yet.
I agree, NO ONE who voted for ‘O’ is a nice person.
Voting for a guy who wants to pick my pocket and deny me any recourse in the law ain’t NICE!
It really IS immoral to think that someone ELSE ought to subsidize YOUR lifestyle.
Yea, as if, ‘I want a new Cadillact and maybe the dealer will send the bill to my neighbor’... duhhhhh that won’t work.
Most of my relatives are also Liberal and uneducated past HS, for what that is worth. The ‘educated’ ones are Conservative ... go figure! Ha!
We all have similar problems.
But remember, once upon a time, it was considered extremely rude for guests to discuss either religion or politics. Remind them gently that you don’t agree on certain things, but you all love each other and everybody’s there just to be together, eat good food, and have a good time.
My own son is a very pro-union absolute jerk who specializes in taunting me, his sisters and a couple of other other conservatives in the family. Since he doesn’t live near us, he does it electronically. But one time, after a particularly bad blow up during one of his visits, I made it clear that we really don’t need to talk about these things, but about the things we have in common (in my case, fishing, music, etc.). He’s been pretty good on his visits since then.
So it’s your house and you can lay down the ground rules pleasantly and politely at the start. They may not abide by the rules, but that’s about all you can do. And if a fight breaks out, it makes them and not you look like the people who ruined Thanksgiving.
I have elderly neighbors who I always bring food to from my garden.
They put out an Obama sign this year and I will never bring them food again.
Serve THEM tofu turkey. Cold.
Make a list of all the bad things you can think of that will be actually happening in Obama’s second term. Then if they wise off, you can bring up one or two of them.
My BIL Invited their neighbors over (sister’s friends albeit she was friends with everyone, RIP) whom my sister described as Obama-worshippers. They have pictures of him everywhere in the house - guess the demographic.
I have more but I’ll refrain for now.
Otherwise I’d say you might want to ease up on the anal reaction. It’s not time yet.
Maybe you can gently educate them what conservatism is. There was a caller last night on Steve Maltzberg fill-in show. She was a former ditzy liberal but her boyfriend helped her see the light and now she’s happy to be an enlightened conservative in learning. Chances are those kids dont really know why they are liberals. Drop them a few seeds and see what goes.
They are family. Talk about family and other things. Do not talk politics. My in-laws are Obama suporters I go there all the time, I do not talk politics.
Have them over but wear a sidearm to the table and while saying grace thank God that you haven’t had to shoot a mouthy socialist YET today.
I have elderly neighbors who I always bring food to from my garden.
They put out an Obama sign this year and I will never bring them food again.
It’s your house, you make the rules.
I see no reason why even a divided family can’t get along if they avoid political subjects.
My boss believes all conservatives are either ignorant, stupid or evil. I have put a real crimp into his world view because he can’t really pin any of the three on me.
So he’s pretty much given up talking about politics around me. Though I must admit I pull my punches a lot because I don’t like to humiliate him. He’s really a very kind and well-intentioned person. Just misled.
You will notice that I am much more charitable in my views of his beliefs than he is of mine.
We say we treasure familiy values as partly an expression of love of God.
One day, Obama will be long gone, and we’ll all still have our families.
Let the bitter — and transient — go, and welcome them with all hospitality and grace, and let Time decide the issue. As others have said, demonstrate Class and basic human love and acceptance of the sinner himself — ignoring his sin.
Has not the Lord promised us as much to each of us on the wider scale? To forget the sin, while retaining the sinner.