Say: “I’m glad you’re happy with the election outcome. I know you understand that I don’t support Obama’s agenda, but we don’t have to get into that right now. I wish him success in making America prosperous, just and secure. And I’m glad that his election will forever put an end to complaints by some people that America is a fundamentally racist country.”
Smile a lot. Then change the subject.
Nothing in that statement is false — I assume we are not going to be like the rabid Bush haters who hoped for America’s military and economic failure just so Bush would look bad.
I know that Obama’s agenda will not lead to a secure and prosperous America. But that shouldn’t stop us from sincerely hoping that it will.
And if, as most of us expect, his policies do lead to disaster, that will become self-evident enough without us actively rooting for it and finding satisfaction in the harm our country suffers. Your relatives will be more likely to accept the reality of his policy failures if they don’t feel they have to save face as a result of your telling them what idiots they were to vote for him in the first place.
A “What a great post” BUMP!
Nicely posted. I’ve been all smiles and congrats, saying just about what you’ve written, and the look I have gotten from some libs is pretty funny, as if they can’t fathom a lack of rage and disappointment.
Naturally, I expect Obama to make the case for a conservative comeback in 2010 and his own removal in 2012, but I’m not going to tell them that.
The idea that this voids the need for special racial consideration is really worth pursuing. If President Obama is anything other than colorblind in his time in office, expect a major backlash.