Reply #16: OOHH OOOH....my brother and I just had blowout w/DAD [View All]

[PretzelWarrior]

I live in Oregon. My brother lives in Tennessee. My parents live in FLA. I can brag and say after I voted in 2000 for Gore and my brother admitted he supported Bush I said: "just you wait."

As the years passed by..9/11, Iraq, etc. He saw the light more and more. He registered to vote last year and cast his absentee ballot for Kerry this fall.

Well, anyway. My dad is somewhat apolitical meaning he doesn't vote at all but has WAY too many griping opinions. I found out from my brother the only reason he argued with me was to get a rise out of me. He could care less about what was clearly such a passionate issue for me.

Anyway, my dad drew first blood with a shitty email to me and others in the family basically saying neither candidate was worth a glass of warm spit. I was polite and said I voted for Kerry and here's why...yadayada.

He fires back with some bullshit reply about how screwed we were and maybe we'd vote for Hillary and Billary in 2008. That set me off and had a MAJOR meltdown with him in my next email.

Today he called my brother who is DEVASTATED BUSH WON....and my brother told my dad to get off the dime and do something. THey had a swearing match back and forth and that was that.

We aren't estranged yet...but I see I have very little to talk to with my Dad. My mom is somewhat a different story, but my Dad is gonna have to reassess and apologize or no relationship.