[TheWriterTX]

Dear Beagleone:

My Dad, a lifelong Republican, stunned and horrified me by admitting that he voted for Obama.

I told my mother that I flatly refuse to claim him as kin from here on out.

Dad's got terminal cancer, my grandma died just a few weeks ago, and his focus has been elsewhere. He doesn't have access to the internet, just the Drive-By Liberal NE Media, so it doesn't surprise me that his perception of the ticket was warped.

Just wish I had a chance to speak with him before he voted. I could have prevented that mistake!

[giotto]

I’m sorry about your Dad. My advice, as one whose father fought cancer for six years and finally lost, is to make peace with him. Forgive him, for he knew not what he did. Direct your anger toward the criminal lying media who knew but would not tell.

[TheThinker]

Your Dad didn't elect Obama by himself. I hope you're not serious about disowning him. I'm upset this charlatan is president but give him a break. He's got cancer. He's dying and probably wanted reconciliation between the races before he dies. If it were only a real possibility, it would have been one of the noblest things he could have done.

[ODDITHER]

A woman I know has a son that is mentally disabled. In order to afford to care for him, she turned her home into a group home and now cares for four young men in their early 20s.

She proudly proclaimed that she took them to vote for Obama. None of them could read or write and one of them doesn’t know his name most of the time.

In return for voting for Obama they got a button that said I voted for Obama. They would have voted for Dr. Spock if the were offered a button.

Goes to show that if you set about registering the infirm, elderly, poor and minorities, and babysit them until their vote is secured you can win. Course it takes close to a billion dollars.

[TruthSetsUFree]

"Just wish I had a chance to speak with him before he voted."

You wish you would've "had a chance" to speak with your Dad about the election? This election period was eternally long. Whatever prevented you from having a chance to speak to your terminally ill Dad about the election in all that time?

Sounds to me like you'd better lay the blame where it belongs: the media and your lack of relating to your Dad.

Elections come and go, but your Dad is your Dad forever, even after he's gone. Better use this time to build a better relationship with him and forget about his vote for Obama. Your Dad's vote didn't make him president. But your anger at your Dad could affect you for a very long time.