Reply #29: Mine's in the big jazz speakeasy in the sky, but otherwise I'd probably be thinking

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the same thing.

EXCEPT - my dad did have a conscience sometimes, along that score. He LOVED ronald reagan. Kept asking me at the dinner table in all smugness "well? Howdya like reagan NOW?" My response would usually be to pretend-barf. But if he were still alive, I'd think he'd be pretty distressed over our country's decline over the past seven-and-some years. He was a bidniss man. Which is why he had no problem at all with Bill Clinton. A lot of small-business people I know, even if they're Republicans, look back on the 90's with great, sad yearning. My dad would be upset about how the economy is failing. But on second thought, he probably would like mcsame, just one veteran to another. I'm glad I don't have to have those particular family spats anymore, much as I miss both my parents now. Same with my mom.

It would have been interesting to observe the two of them and how they'd have faced the old racism that many in their generation (at least who I saw) struggled with, assuming Obama is our nominee. It's the kind I've heard described before, among the older demographics, in which they know in their heads how wrong it is and they've lived long enough to see it demonstrated, but something way down in the bottom of their guts just goes the other way...