Beginnings of a Thaw?

[CatBO]

My boss has voted Republican all his life. He's never pulled the lever for a Democrat, even though he acknowledges his party has made a huge mess in the White House over the past 8 years. He's still not talking like he's going to pull the lever for Obama.

But he heard about the rally in Charlotte over the weekend. Friday he said, "So you going to the party?" I said, "I might. I don't know yet."

Today I came in the office and the first thing he said to me was, "Did you go to the party?" I said, "No, I had to go see my in-laws. But I heard there were some major lines."

And he leaned in and whispered, "You know we can agree to disagree on politics, but the media is so stupid." I asked why he said that. He said, "Well one channel is saying 'Thirty thousand people showed up to see Barack Obama,' all incredulously. And then you turn to another channel and they say, 'ONLY twenty thousand people showed up to see Obama' almost dismissively. That's just stupid. It was an insane turnout. Why do they insist on trying to spin it like it wasn't a huge blowout for Obama?"

I chuckled, "I don't know... you tell me."

I'm going to keep working on him.

[Demi_Babe]

1. LOL...I was there and the turn out was INSANE!!!

[CatBO]

2. I am jealous...

I would not have been able to get there much before 11, and it would have meant totally blowing off my in-laws who my husband has been wanting us to see for awhile (my FIL is in bad health). I floated a trial balloon about how "I might go" and the response from my husband was not good.

My in laws and my husband are not politically active, but they are Democrats, so they just look at me and shake their heads. I don't mind. Now my sister-in-law who lives in Raleigh, she and I might as well be blood relatives. We've both drained our bank accounts for Obama and have volunteered. So they just chuckle and say, "She's just like Debbie..." :D

[YOY]

3. "but a million billion done showed up fer McCain. Sadly we fergot our wide angle lens!"

Keep chipping away. Once you can get him to admit that the media is anything but "liberal" you know you're winning.