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akuma587 on 04 November 2008
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MontanaHatchet said:
akuma587 said:
The funniest thing happened today when I was at the gym. I am sitting there on one of the bikes and on ESPN McCain and Obama were both making appearances. Some 70 year old lady walks by the screen, sees Obama on it, and she fucking flips him off with the angriest look on her face!

I was laughing my ass off so hard! I wanted to go up and tell her that she better get used to seeing his face, because he is going to be President the next four years.

Hell, I wouldn't even do something so childish if Nixon or President Bush was on the screen, and both of them deserved to be flipped off.

The GOP is the official party of self-proclaimed ignorance.

I was enjoying your story until the last sentence:

"The GOP is the official party of self-proclaimed ignorance"

That's just not fair and not right. So what is some old lady in a gym flips off Obama? You live in Texas. There are a lot of passionate conservatives there. There were a lot of passionate liberals who photoshopped Hitler mustaches onto George Bush's face and burned the flag in protest of the Iraq War (and in my honest opinion, flag burners don't deserve to live in this country). People on both sides of the political spectrum are going to be crazy because politics is one of the greatest dividers of society and often removes all sense from normal people.

I know I probably sound like a huge conservative right now, and I probably should be one (seeing as how I was born in Montana). I'm just trying to take on a neutral approach and demonstrate how both (or all) sides of politics can be absolutely crazy. Don't even get me started on Ron Paul supporters

Fair enough, but Bush actually did screw the country up.  I tried to make the distinction clear.

I'll just say in Texas the GOP is the official party of self-proclaimed ignorance.

 



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