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In reply to the discussion: I am so angry right now I want to cry. [View all]leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)40. You know what? I just am who I am.
Just about everyone I interact with is pretty far to the right - this is the Bible belt. I have heard people say some pretty awful things about Obama - and the whole Left.
I make no bones about the fact that I am a Democrat - that I am one of those awful people on the Left. And I am always nice to everybody. I don't talk politics or religion.
I don't know how Obama stands it. I would have folded after the first 10 minutes. But is just can't tell you how much I admire that man. He just shoulders on trying to do the right thing in spite of everything .
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I experienced similar at the dog park from old gentleman with whom I'd previously had many good
hlthe2b
Aug 2014
#1
Living in Texas this, unfortunately, all too common for me. People assume I am a tea nut like
Dustlawyer
Aug 2014
#21
That's why every week one of our protest signs always said 'Impeach Cheney First!'
freshwest
Aug 2014
#81
That's because this President represents the possibility of everything they have been told to fear..
Volaris
Aug 2014
#24
Having a lot of the moments in the last three years. Its pretty much gutted my catering buisness....
marble falls
Aug 2014
#30
Racism is a sickness. Many react like kids to the medicine of exposure, and see their cure as worse
ancianita
Aug 2014
#31
I want off ths planet too... my sympathies Drunken Irishman, time for some new drinking buddies.
riseabove
Aug 2014
#52
I don't know DI, yet say a bad thing about GWB, (who deserved animosity) and they freak!
joanbarnes
Aug 2014
#60
It's not just Obama; its black men, females, immigrants, the poor, the unemployed...
KauaiK
Aug 2014
#67
I noticed that a person will back off if you give em a one to one conversation, often they STFU….
MrMickeysMom
Aug 2014
#73