Why Teabaggers lie about HCR (and everything else)...they have to.

[Joanne98]

Leading up to the 2008 Presidential election, I had a lengthy political discussion with my younger sister. We had been discussing the increasingly volatile nature of the political attacks coming from the right. The cries of “terrorist”, the continuing claims of a “kenyan/muslim Manchurian candidate”, and the warnings of coming socialism bothered my sister and I both, to say nothing of the actual death threats clearly audible at rallies for the opposition. As the children of African American parents who grew in the Deep South in the midst of the Civil Rights movement, the dogs whistles, the latent racism was clear to us both. My sister asked me how these people, could say such things about another American citizen, how they hate one of their own neighbors that much.

My answer was simple. I told her that unfortunately, some of our neighbors, some of our American brothers and sisters had long embraced a world view that said that an African-American was not worthy to hold the presidency, to lead “their” great nation. If Barack Obama won the election, that world view would be proven false. It would be, figuratively speaking, the end of the world for the people who held it.

I’ve heard it said that it’s much better to be happy than right. How true.

griffon2k's diary :: :: These thoughts return to me today after my wife and I decided to spend the day in DC. As a working couple in Northern Virginia, both of us working long hours, and I with a ridiculous daily commute, we’re often jumping at the chance to go somewhere, anywhere to relax. Sometimes it’s a short vacation out of the region. Sometimes, like today, we just take a trip to DC to enjoy the city and the sights. Today, I wanted to see the Capitol building. I know what was going on in those halls this weekend, but that really wasn’t my reason for wanting to go. I just wanted to see it. I just wanted look at it. My wife obliged me.

We weren’t a minute out of the Metro station outside the Capitol building before I began to wish she hadn’t.

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Now this is a guy who understands them. He nails it.