Posted on 11/06/2008 5:55:13 AM PST by RobinMasters
In this thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2126850/posts?page=13) some people shared their experiences about what they saw after the Election.
Carley said : "You could see shock and awe on the faces of most people yesterday. The commuter train in NJ was filled with silent people, black and white, wondering just what they hell they had done.
The trip was eerily silent when it’s usually filled with people chatting away."
or jnygrl : "My husband takes NJ Transit. He said his train was silent yesterday until it stopped at Newark."
Please, feel free to share what you've experienced around you. It would be useful for some FReepers or others.
You’re more than welcome to it.
I changed mine yesterday, but I’m going through ‘Chocolate Withdrawl’ so it may be back! :)
I actually removed all obama gloaters from my myspace and facebook contacts; it will be bad enough having Obama in my face the next four years, I don’t want to deal with his supporters to. I’m choosing to surround myself with supportive, like-minded people.
I was parked behind a woman in her minivan with Tennessee license plates. She was gloating; she had an Obama bumper sticker.
Two of my kids said the mood at their charter school was very somber, very quiet, very sad.
You ignored 100 years of history, thus completely changing the truth to support your reasoning.
Marriage in the black community was not "optional" for the almost 100 years between Emancipation and the Great Society. Booker T. Washington was talking about economic emancipation as a follow-on to political emancipation, and people were listening and acting. Churches and social organizations were solidly behind marriage and family and young men being financially successful, marrying, and starting families in the proper way.
Black families and black businesses throve despite segregation, even in the South. Atlanta (my home town) had a prosperous middle and professional class -- with banks, insurance companies, colleges, churches, all doing well. I personally know families that moved into Atlanta from rural farms where they were sharecropping and put the next generation through college and professional school.
All that changed with the Great Society and the welfare state.
So you can't blame the current situation on some kind of spiritual payback for slavery without pretending that Washington and the rise of the black middle class never happened. And of course the assumption that most of the folks who are suffering the consequences of socialism now had any connection with slaveowning is false. Relatively few Southerners owned slaves, since the majority worked on the very large plantations. And a not insignificant number of slaveowners were free blacks. Do their descendants pay 'spiritual reparations' too?
Full disclosure: I'd be first in line for spiritual reparations if such a thing existed, since my 3xg-grandfather was the #1 slaveholder in Russell County Alabama. The #2 man was a Jewish guy from Charleston or Savannah (can't remember which), and #3 was a free black man. But at least I've studied the issue.
How long do you think you’re gonna be over there now? Will you still be there in April or is Obama gonna make you come home on January 22? (thereby destroying all the progress that has been made)...
“That whole bottom paragraph is sad on so many levels.”
Yes, it is. And, believe me, up until about 6 months ago, I would have never even stepped foot near an ammo counter anywhere. But just last month I applied for a concealed carry license and purchased a handgun. Unfortunately, the crime rate in this town rivals some large inner cities. The racial divide is deep, and I feel that race relations have been set back 30 years in just the past few months. Sucks because I’ve never considered myself the least bit racist and never wanted my children exposed to the hatred of racism. I’m so ready to move from this place. As for me personally, my hubby is deployed right now and I feel a bit vulnerable, moreso with the political climate.
I think it's a golden opportunity for conservatism. People who were not open to loving the US are now, and we can give them conservative reasons for doing so. We can take all the nebulous "hope", "change", "unity", and "yes we can" and fill them in with conservative definitions. The Obama campaign was such an empty vessel that we can fill it in with real American patriotism, community, Christianity, family, and respect of hard work and private property rights. Obama set America up as an role model with the support of the media. Let's make sure Reagan's shining city on a hill is the definition that fills in the inspiration.
Fun isn’t it? Mine are passive aggressive with their comments.
For the past ten years I’ve dragged myself to other states to see them, never ever said an unkind word to any of them. Had them in my home and treated them great.
They’re rude and critical and insulting and this election is the last straw. I’m not saying I’ll never see them again, but will be polite for my husbands sake.Nothing more. I’d much rather be around my sweet little dog than those people.
He’s lived in a different state
from them for the last 35 years, plus the love of a good woman who introduced him to Free Republic.Lol
He also has something they don’t...common sense.
They love Europe. My husband loves
America.
Hope he knows what he has!!
Best FRegards,
And the problem is, these particular in-laws wouldn’t even see a problem with this. They are lost and I’m done with them.
What I think I might say is this, “OK, here’s my husband’s wallet. Take whatever you want because now you’re entitled to it.”
“I’m in MN too. A couple of my in-laws are 0bamabot, atheist socialists. They are officially out of my life. If my husband wants to see them, fine, but count me out.
I’m having a hard time shaking the impending sense of doom I have had since Tuesday night. My husband thinks I’m borderline crazy, but then again he doesn’t think too deeply about the implications of this election. He even suggested I stay off of FR. Fat chance of that. :)”
Hmmm....we must have the same relatives. And I have the same sense of impending doom. Can’t shake it.
““I don’t want to associate with anyone that voted for Obama.” Same here.
Aw, now, guys.... I know a number of very nice folks who unfortunately suffer from that particular character flaw. I like them nevertheless; and they like me, too, despite my support for McCain.
And I will continue to associate with them. Mostly because I still like them; but I must confess, too, that the schadenfreude will be thick on the ground before too long — and I won’t even have to say a thing. They’ll know.”
I hear you, I just refuse to have them rubbing salt in the wound. When President Bush was re-elected, I didn’t rub it in their faces at all, but they will NOT be so gracious. I don’t want to deal with it at all, and being a family situation, I would rather not have that kind of an argument and bring that kind of bitterness into the entire family dynamic.
But yes, I am really looking forward to the schadenfreude.
Thanks for your comments here today, and for your service these many years. Stay safe, and well till you can return home.
Obama isn't going to make me do anything. ;-)
Word today has it that the mission I'm on should be here through at least October '09. My commitment is up in June, but they've already asked me to stay.
I haven't decided yet. The thought of another summer in Iraq...{wilt!} I'm playing it all by ear now.
I saw several “Black Power” shirts on a college campus yesterday, but not an electric atmosphere. I guess most were worrying about classes. One of my kids’ friend’s mother said yesterday afternoon, “I think I made a big mistake. But I’m not going to worry about that right now.” Uh-huh. All-righty, then.
To heck with that! Tell them to hand you THEIR wallet, that you want them to start spreading the wealth to you, since THEY were the ones that voted for it and apparently believe in it.
I said yeah, I have. It's an on-coming train.
A dear cousin who is studying in France sent a gushing email about how tears of joy ran down her face at the news of O-bomb-a’s victory. She said everywhere she went people were asking her if she was an American and offering congratulations and hugs. She ended the email hoping all of the recipients would celebrate this great victory with her. I just wrote back and said I was glad she was having a good time. That’s it. It’s not worth picking fights with family members over. (But I won’t hesitate to defend my position if attacked.)
A friend's college-attending daughter (she lives on campus) started spouting a lot of Obama-like phrases recently in a completely different, non-political context.
It was so noticeable that I went completely "off topic" for a moment and began wondering to myself whether she was an Obama supporter.
Pretty surprising, because she was brought up in a conservative Christian home.
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