I honestly had a conservation with my parents (blue dog democrats) before the 2008 election... and they totally and completely believed that Obama had lied in his own biography about his drug use and other things to make himself look cool!
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How do you argue with someone like that?
They wont even believe the truth when he admits it!!! And THEN with a straight face they insisted that Obama would cut the deficit! ROFL
So how are they going to vote this year? They’re not drinking the kool-aid this year, are they?
I will confess that I had a little advantage. You see, I wanted to be a college English Lit professor. I had been to very conservative college prep schools, and a fairly conservative small private college, so the pictures I had in my head of that scenario were embarrassingly anachronistic.
But what I saw when I studied to get my Master's at an urban state university shocked and frightened me, 20 years ago. I could see where this was all headed, and Obama embodied everything evil about that trend.
I knew how this would end up, to the degree that the only hope I had, and have, is that he is so incompetent and tone-deaf to the world outside the academy walls that the good people of the US would toss him out on his rear.
Who was that other guy that said a bunch of stuff in his auto-biography that noone believed? Drawing a blank. Back in the 20s . . . . anyone??